Battle of One Tree Hill | |||||||
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Part of War of Southern Queensland | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
British colonists | Jagera people | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Commissioner Simpson | Multuggerah | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
18 (35-50 reinforcements for counterattack) | over 100 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown, mostly wounded | Unknown, a couple killed and wounded |
The Battle of One Tree Hill was one of a series of conflicts that took place between European settlers and a group of men of the Jagera and other Aboriginal groups in the Darling Downs area in the Colony of New South Wales in the 1840s, as part of the Australian frontier wars. It was one in which the settlers were routed by a group of local Aboriginal men under the warrior Multuggerah, a rare event both in its form, as pitched battles between the two groups, and in its outcome.[1]