Musket Wars
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The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertrib
Maori Wardance Kahuroa
Heke Kawiti 1846
Hong hika war canoe
Moriori people
Hongi Hika
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Hongi Hika was a New Zealand Māori rangatira and war leader of the iwi of Ngāpuhi. He was a pivotal figure in the early years of regular European contact and settlement in New Zealand. As one of the f
Musket Wars
…the design of pā fortifications, which later benefited Māori when engaged in battles with colonial forces during the New Zealand Wars. Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Hika in 1818 used newly acquired muskets to launch devastating raids from his Northland base into the Bay of Plenty, where local Māori were still relying…
Hongi Hika, a sketch of an 1820 painting
Chiefs Hongi Hika (centre) and Waikato meet with Kendall