| Site Name | Talavera Station, Maranoa Pastoral District |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Mandandanji or Bigambul or Wirray Wirray or Kogai |
| Colony | NSW |
| Present State/Territory | QLD |
| Police District | |
| Latitude | -27.963 |
| Longitude | 148.868 |
| Date | Between 20 Jul 1849 and 31 Jul 1849 |
| Attack Time | day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victims Killed | 50 |
| Victims Killed Notes | Killed: M more than 20, F; Probable: M F; Possible: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Attackers | Colonisers: Government official, Crown Lands Commissioner, Stockman |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | Killed: M F; Wounded: M F |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Opportunity |
| Weapons Used | Firearms, carbines, bayonets, swords, pistols |
| Narrative | William Telfer, a young stockman in the Balonne River region, recalled a stand up battle at Talavera station on the Balonne River in 1849, between a Bigumbal chief called Willari with at least 50 warriors and Crown Lands Commissioner Jack Durbin and a posse of stockmen. '...the blacks made a good stand but they were put to rout losing their Chief who was shot with about fifty others'. In the battle neither Durbin nor his posse suffered any casualties. This would suggest that the battle was probably an ambush of the Bigumbal warriors. |
| Sources | Milliss 1980:42; Collins 2002: 20, 42-3; (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | * |
