[2] From most accounts, Multuggerah, the leader of the Jagera nation in the 1830s and 1840s,[3] was happy as long as the settlers didn't encroach into the Lockyer Valley.

[4] The road had been built about two years earlier and was the only way of keeping both commerce and communication open between the Moreton Bay and Downs areas.

[2] In September 1843, a large group of squatters organised a "cavalcade"[1] consisting of 18 armed men and three drays pulled by about 50 bullocks.

[4] At a location known as One Tree Hill, (now known as Tabletop Mountain, Queensland), near Toowoomba, the group was ambushed by Multuggerah and about 100 men, having been forced to stop at barricades previously erected by the attackers.

They were then able to throw spears and stones and roll boulders down the slopes, wounding some of the squatters and shattering many of their muskets, until they were forced to retreat.

[1] The squatters awaited the border police of Dr Simpson, but when the six men found the road barricaded again, decided not to attempt an attack on the warriors.

[9] An Indigenous land use agreement was signed over the site, between Toowoomba City Council and a body representing the Jagera, Yuggera and Ugarapul people as the traditional owners of the area, in 2008.