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… that he had used for Pōtatau’s investiture. The invasion of Waikato The first years of Tāwhiao’s reign were dominated by war. Governor Thomas Gore Browne demanded that Tāwhiao … Stream (which Tāwhiao had established as an aukati) in July 1863. The invasion of Waikato ensued, with major battles …
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Part of story: Kīngitanga – the Māori King movement
… (William Morris) or Rehu, and also as Maipapa, was born in Waikato. His mother was Ngāpawa, and his father was Te … daughter, Te Kahukiwi te Pura Te Wherowhero (Te Pura or Waraki Ngāneko). Te Pura died in 1933. Te Wheoro succeeded … erected, and when carpenters arrived from Auckland in March 1863 to begin building a fortified constabulary station at …
Type: Biography
… at Waitara in Taranaki. This action led to the outbreak of war in 1860. Governor George Grey’s unwillingness to accept … in New Zealand led him to order a military invasion of the Waikato region, the centre of the Māori King movement, in 1863. A large military force was used again in 1881 to break …
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Part of story: Kāwanatanga – Māori engagement with the state
… the Pensioner Settlements electorate. On the outbreak of war in Waikato in July 1863 he enrolled in the Auckland Militia and was present at …
Type: Biography
… Edward John von Dadelszen is among those who shaped New … adventures as a teenager at the outbreak of war in Waikato in 1863. At his death, his obituary in the Evening Post … Dadelszen, Edward John von …
Type: Biography
… built a line between Auckland and Drury that opened in June 1863, just before the Waikato War began. By 1865 the southern telegraph line extended from …
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Part of story: Telecommunications
… According to one source Taratoa was back in Ōtaki by 1863, but returned to Tauranga after the Māori leaders at … the King movement with food and ammunition during the Waikato war in 1863–64. Contingents of warriors were allowed to move …
Type: Biography
… Rangi was born probably at Tauranga. He was the son of Te Waru and his wife, Hine Te Oro. He could trace his ancestry … Hauā against Ngāti Maru at the battle of Taumatawīwī in Waikato in 1830. When Ngāpuhi raids resumed in the early … for the King during the war in Waikato and at Tauranga in 1863–64, but Tūpaea adopted a neutral stance and retired to …
Type: Biography
… activities and media thrived. Fourth estate In 1859 two Waikato Māori, Wiremu Toetoe and Hemara Te Rerehau, … plan to import a lion was unsuccessful. During the Waikato War the press was broken up by troops. Māori in London One … in 1816, and Tuai and Titeri, who visited in 1818. In 1863 there were two Māori performing groups in London at the …
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Part of story: Ngā tāone nui – Māori and the city
… and Tauranga people over the western harbour. Ngāpuhi war parties returned in the early 1830s to attack both … as there was plenty of land closer to Auckland. War In 1863 British forces invaded Waikato as part of a campaign to enforce government …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… in 1856, increasing soil infertility and mounting debts. War Fears of European domination led to widespread support … than in defiance of the Crown. The subsequent invasion of Waikato by Crown forces brought them close to Hauraki Māori … the Great South Road and in the Hūnua Ranges until December 1863. The Crown built a line of redoubts (forts) between …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel region
… took her children to Maraetai to live with her mother. When war began in Waikato in July 1863, Hēni Te Kiri Karamū and her family supported the King …
Type: Biography
… April 1814. Nothing is known of her until her marriage to Edward George at Battersea, London, on 21 September 1841. They … to help fund the building of a stone schoolhouse. In 1863 the families of settlers in the outlying districts … around the Manukau Harbour, threatened by the war in Waikato, fled to Onehunga for safety. Elizabeth George, …
Type: Biography
… Marianne (seven), Jessie (five), Jane (three) and Edward (nine months) on the troopship Oriental Queen. John … population in the 1860s during the New Zealand wars; in mid 1863 over 10,000 British Army troops and militia were … at St Paul's Anglican Church. While he fought at Taranaki, Waikato and Whanganui from 1863 to 1865 (later receiving a …
Type: Biography
… perception of New Zealand’s achievements in both rugby and war were important in creating the long-held stereotype of … wrote this account of a skirmish in the early stages of the Waikato war at Wairoa (Clevedon), south of Auckland, in September 1863: ‘On the morning of the 15th, when some of the men were …
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Part of story: Military and sport
… name. As a young man Puhirake doubtless took part in the warfare against invading Ngāpuhi in the 1820s and 1830s, and … dispute at Tauranga from 1856 to 1859. During the war in Waikato in 1863–64 Wiremu Tamihana Tarapīpīpi of Ngāti Haua requested …
Type: Biography
… but cut short his studies to take part in the Crimean War. After completing the musketry course at Hythe Gunnery … clerk to the Auckland Provincial Council. When the Waikato militia regiments were raised in 1863 he joined the 1st Regiment as captain/adjutant and held …
Type: Biography
… Louis Hetet. Taonui's father played a central role in the wars between Waikato and Taranaki tribes in the 1820s and 1830s. He took … in a group of Ngāti Maniapoto who went to Waitara in April 1863 to attack government troops there. Fighting alongside …
Type: Biography
… however, was unprofitable. The outbreak of hostilities in Waikato in 1863 led to the formation of volunteer units to supplement … British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While …
Type: Biography
… Auckland province and ultimate confiscation by the Crown of Waikato territory were essential items on the … plains of Wiremu Tāmihana Tarapīpipi and Ngāti Hauā. War, however, seemed necessary to force the Waikato to lease … of the settlers. With the extension of war to Waikato in 1863 Firth saw service as a private in the Auckland Naval …
Type: Biography