Site Name | Battle Mountain, Cloncurry |
Aboriginal Place Name | |
Language Group | Kalkadoons |
Present State/Territory | QLD |
Colony/State/Territory at the time | QLD |
Police District | Cloncurry |
Latitude | -19.502 |
Longitude | 140.435 |
Date | Between 1 Sep 1884 and 30 Sep 1884 |
Attack Time | Day |
Victims | Aboriginal People |
Victim Descriptions | Aboriginal |
Victims Killed | 30 |
Victims Killed Notes | At least 20 and probably closer to 40 |
Attackers | Colonists |
Attacker Descriptions | Native Police, Settler(s) |
Attackers Killed | 0 |
Attackers Killed Notes | |
Transport | Horse |
Motive | Reprisal |
Weapons Used | Firearm(s), Snider(s) |
Narrative | A detachment of six Native police led by Sub Inspector Frederick Urquhart and assisted by settler Alexander Kennedy avenged the killing of 'a Chinese shepherd on Granada station 70kms north of Cloncurry.' They encountered 150 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 was wounded (Richards, cited in Bottoms, 2013, p 166). |
Sources | Bottoms 2013, pp164-166; Richards, 2010. (Sources PDF) |
Corroboration Rating | ** |