Battle of Mitchell River
The Jardine brothers' cattle droving expedition from Rockhampton to Somerset near Cape York Peninsula's northern tip in 1864-65 saw numerous encounters with Aboriginal people, including two massacres near the Mitchell River, which the brothers later referred to as the Battle of Mitchell River. It was not the only such incident on an expedition that, in the Jardines' own words, shot our way through the territory it traversed. While the estimated total killed is given as 38, it may well have been significantly higher.
