Site Name | Battle Mountain, Cloncurry |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Kalkadoons |
Colony | QLD |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Police District | |
Latitude | -19.502 |
Longitude | 140.435 |
Date | Between 1 Sep 1884 and 30 Sep 1884 |
Attack Time | day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victims Killed | 20 |
Victims Killed Notes | |
Attackers | Colonisers: Native Police |
Attackers Killed | 1 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearms, sniders |
Narrative | Native police led by Sub Inspector Frederick Urquhart and assisted by Alexander Kennedy avenged the killing of a Chinese shepherd on Granada staton 70kms north of Cloncurry. They encountered Kalkadoon warriors on a hill and called on them to surrender.There was an affray in which 'an unknown number of men, women and children were killed.' None of the attacking party were wounded. |
Sources | Bottoms 2013: 164-6. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | ** |