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‘New Zealand war expedition’, 1835

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‘New Zealand war expedition’, 1835

This engraving by the missionary Henry Williams was first printed in 1835 but dates from the 1820s when Ngāpuhi, armed with muskets purchased from Europeans, went on expeditions of conquest across much of the North Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0031-1835-1

by Henry Williams

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Rāwiri Taonui, Ngāpuhi – Early European contact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/4140/new-zealand-war-expedition-1835 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Rāwiri Taonui, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 March 2017.