Battle of One Tree Hill
The Battle of One Tree Hill was the best known of a series of conflicts that took place between European settlers and the Jagera people in the Darling Downs area in the colony of Queensland in the 1840s.
In September 1843, after a mass poisoning at Kilcoy Homestead, Aboriginal leader Multuggerah led an ambush on squatters taking supplies across from Moreton Bay, at One Tree Hill, near Toowoomba.
The squatters organised a revenge party and the Aboriginal people retreated up the mountain. They escaped into the Lockyer Valley, but were later tracked down and killed by the military.
A monument recording the battle was established in 2005. An Indigenous Land Use Agreement has been signed over the site.
In 2010, the National Library of Australia acquired a sketch by local Thomas John Domville Taylor for which is believed to be an eyewitness account of the aftermath of the battle. This made it one of fewer than ten visual eyewitness accounts of attacks by European settlers on Indigenous Australians.
