Site Name Brachyna Gorge Flinders Ranges
Aboriginal Place Name
Language Group Yura - Adnyamathanha
Colony SA
Present State/Territory SA
Police District
Latitude -31.342
Longitude 138.553
Date Between 1 Mar 1852 and 31 Mar 1852
Attack Time dawn
Victims Aboriginal People
Victims Killed 40
Victims Killed Notes 40-60 MWC
Attackers Colonisers: Settler
Attackers Killed 0
Attackers Killed Notes
Transport
Motive
Weapons Used Firearms, carbines, revolvers
Narrative Following the killing of Robert Richardson by Yura Aboriginal men, his employer, JF Hayward formed a posse of settlers and stockmen in the region, tracked down the Yura camp in a gorge, attacked it at dawn and killed a 'few'.
Sources Foster et al 2001: 95-105. (Sources PDF)
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