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The Waikato War of 1863–64 (PDF) "Taranaki and Waikato wars", New Zealand History Online, archived from the original on 12 October 2008; Bohan, Edmund (2005). Climates of War: New Zealand in Conflict, 1859–69. Christchurch: Hazard Press. ISBN 1877270962. Nicholson, John (2006). White Chief: The Story of a Pakeha Maori.
The Battle of Rangiriri was a major engagement in the invasion of Waikato, which took place on 20–21 November 1863 during the New Zealand Wars. More than 1400 British troops defeated about 500 warriors of the Kingitanga (Māori King Movement), which was resisting the expansion of British settlement and colonial rule in the North Island. The ...
The Defence of Pukekohe East was an action during the Invasion of the Waikato, part of the New Zealand Wars.On 13 September and 14 September 1863, 11 settlers and 6 militia men inside a half-completed stockade around the Pukekohe East church held off a Māori taua or war party of approximately 200 men from Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Pou iwi, until they were relieved by detachments of the 18th ...
The war between the government and Kīngitanga Māori spread to other areas of the North Island, with the biggest single campaign being the invasion of the Waikato in 1863–1864, before hostilities concluded with the pursuits of Riwha Tītokowaru in Taranaki (1868–1869) and Rangatira (chief) Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki on the east coast ...
The Waikato War, one of the conflicts of the New Zealand Wars, spanned the period from July 1863 to April 1864. [1] At the beginning of the war, Tuakau was a Maori kāinga (village) of the hapū (sub-tribe) Ngāti Pou in the Lower Waikato Valley on the northern side of the Waikato River, to the southeast of what is now Pukekohe.
In August 1863, just three weeks after the invasion of the Waikato began, Attorney-General Frederick Whitaker and Defence Minister Thomas Russell sent Governor Grey a memorandum signed by Premier Alfred Domett, claiming that the Waikato, the most powerful Māori tribe, was planning to drive out or destroy Europeans and establish a native kingdom.
By December 1862, work on the road had extended west past Waireka to Okurukuru, and by early 1863, Tamati Hone Oraukawa led a Ngāti Ruanui party north to support Taranaki iwi, if British troops re-occupied Tataraimaka. [12] Grey, while visiting the Waikato in January 1863, indicated that he intended to send troops to retake Tataraimaka. [12]
During the advance into the Waikato in 1863, a supplementary line of supply was established. Supplies were taken by steamer from Onehunga to the Waikato Heads, then transported upriver in canoes by Queenite Māori to the intermediate depot at Camerontown, then to the Queen's Redoubt at Pōkeno. The use of water transport was more efficient than ...