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Corn field raids 1827-1828
Location
Result Indeterminate
Belligerents

United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Turrbal
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom King George IV
United Kingdom Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Darling
United Kingdom Captain Patrick Logan
Mulrobin (Mulrubin)
Strength
400 estimated total
South Brisbane Tribe
Casualties and losses
Total Casualties: Unknown

The Corn Field Raids of 1827-1828 was a frontier conflict in the early Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. The conflict consisted of Turrbal attempts to starve out the colony by repeated plundering and destruction of the maize fields in South Bank and Kangaroo Point.

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