The massacre at Battle Hill Kalkadoon




the group responsible tracked down gorge, feasting on cattle, , mowed down. on next 9 weeks, settlers , urquhart s police tracked kalkadoons relentlessly in war of retaliation, killing many. in september, chinese shepherd h.hopkins s granada station on dugald river (de) speared death in foothills of argylla ranges, , rumoured had been eaten cannibals . afterwards, estimated 600 kalkatungu warriors gathered on rocky outlook fend off parties of well-armed settlers, local constabulary , native troopers. @ 1 point attackers under urquhart tried flanking movement, caused assembled aborigines charge straight down on them, fall in waves under withering fire of muskets, called makini kalkatungu. 200 said have died in battle. urqhart himself knocked out, , broke of organized resistance @ tribal level, , touted kalkatungu had been wiped out. estimated numbers lost on 6 years, 1878 1884, in counter-attacking incursions , exercise of expropriation on lands, runs 900.





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