First Taranaki War
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The First Taranaki War was an armed conflict over land ownership and sovereignty that took place between Māori and the Colony of New Zealand in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island from M
Governor Thomas Gore Browne.
Location of the disputed Pekapeka block on the site of modern-day Waitara.
Troops defend Jury's farmhouse in the Battle of Waireka, by A. H. Messenger.
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Invasion of the Waikato
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The invasion of the Waikato became the largest and most important campaign of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars. Hostilities took place in the North Island of New Zealand between the military forces o
First Taranaki War
…the British bid to impose sovereignty over them, and had therefore been victorious. But he said the Māori victory was a hollow one, leading to the invasion of the Waikato. In its 1996 report to the Government on Taranaki land claims, the Waitangi Tribunal observed that the war was begun by the Government, which had been…
Ngāti Maniapoto survivors of the war, at the jubilee gathering on the battlefield of Orakau, 1 April 1914. All but Hekiera shared in the defence of Orakau pa, and fought through to the Puniu River in the retreat.
Chart from the medical and surgical journal of A. B. Messer, assistant surgeon aboard HMS Curacoa
Proclamation requiring Māori to take an Oath of Allegiance, 9 July 1863
Lieutenant-General Duncan Cameron, commander-in-chief of British forces in New Zealand, 1863–65