Rangiaowhia
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Rangiaowhia was, for over 20 years, a thriving village on a ridge between two streams in the Waikato region in New Zealand, about 4 km east of Te Awamutu. From 1841 it was the site of a very productiv
St Paul's Church (Anglican) at Rangiaowhia
St Paul's church, with Maungatautari in the distance
The fight at rangiaowhia
General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He was later a governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Cameron's house near Drury, Auckland, with staff tents to the left
A depiction of the Battle of Rangiriri, 20 November 1863, a pen sketch by Charles Heaphy
Cameron with a group of soldiers of the Colonial Defence Force on the morning of 29 April 1864, prior to the attack on Gate Pā. Cameron is standing at right, leaning against the centre of the wheel of the gun carriage