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[[File:1870nativepolice.jpg|thumb|left|Frederic Urquhart and his section of Native Police in the early 1880s]]
While based at Cloncurry, Urquhart was involved in other massacres of Indigenous people. Probably the most well known of these was the skirmish later known as the Battle Mountain incident. Urquhart and his troopers were following up the killing of a shepherd at the Granada [[sheep station]] when they encountered a group of [[Kalkadoon]]. The Kalkadoon retreated to a rocky hill at the head of Prospector's Creek where they proceeded to pelt the Native Police with stones and spears. Urquhart was hit in the head and momentarily lost consciousness. He quickly recovered and led the Native Police in a flanking movement around the hill and proceeded to the massacre the resisting group of [[Kalkadoon]]. For decades afterwards the hill was littered with the bones of the men, women and children killed.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lowe, David | title=Forgotten rebels : black Australians who fought back | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Permanent Press | url=http://acr.net.au/~davidandjane/frebel_20000416.pdf | isbn=978-0-646-15686-6}}</ref><ref name="Fysh" />
In 1888, Urquhart was transferred to conduct Native Police operations on the [[Cape York Peninsula]]. He was speared in the leg during a skirmish with Aboriginal people at the headwaters of the [[Wenlock River]]. This occurred as part of a punitive mission following the killing of colonist Edmund Watson near the [[Archer River]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article177608201 |title=Queensland News. |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph]] |issue=5,220 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=6 July 1889 |accessdate=29 November 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52280995 |title=NORTHERN MAIL NEWS |newspaper=[[Morning Bulletin]] |volume=XLII |issue=8089 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=19 July 1889 |accessdate=29 November 2019 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Urquhart and his troopers patrolled extensively around the peninsula and were also assigned a vessel named the ''Albatross'' to travel around various islands in the [[Torres Strait]]. In 1890, Urquhart played a major role in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked [[RMS Quetta]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3511950 |title=CRUISE OF THE ALBATROSS. |newspaper=[[The Brisbane Courier]] |volume=XLVI |issue=10,027 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=5 March 1890 |accessdate=29 November 2019 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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