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Invasion of the Waikato; Part of the New Zealand Wars: 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.
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 ...
New Zealand Wars Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa; Memorial in the Auckland War Memorial Museum for all who died in the New Zealand Wars. "Kia mate toa" translates as "fight unto death" or "be strong in death", and is the motto of the Otago and Southland Regiment of the New Zealand Army.
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 Ngāti Raukawa–Ngāti Kahu-pungapunga War was a conflict between the Ngāti Raukawa iwi of Tainui and Ngāti Kahu-pungapunga in the Waikato region of New Zealand in the mid-seventeenth century, which resulted in Tainui's acquisition of the upper Waikato River. This marked the final destruction of all non-Tainui people within the Waikato ...
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.
1860, Mar to 1861, Mar: First Taranaki War; 1863, Jul to 1864, Apr: Invasion of the Waikato. 1863, Nov 20–21: The Battle of Rangiriri was a major engagement in the invasion of Waikato. More than 1400 British troops defeated about 500 warriors of the Kingitanga (Māori King Movement). [17] 1864: War in the Waikato ends with battle of Ōrākau.
Grouped into sections mostly geographically with some sequential and chronological, these include The Northern Wars 1845–46, Central New Zealand: Wairau, Wellington, and Whanganui, The first Taranaki War 1860–61 and the second from 1863 to 1864, The Waikato War 1863–64, The War at Tauranga, Pai Mārire and the West Coast campaigns 1864 ...