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Following his attack on Matawhero, Te Kooti retreated to Ngātapa, a fortress protected by precipitous hillsides. Colonel George Whitmore tried twice to dislodge Te Kooti’s men, andwith the noose tightening Te Kooti escaped during the night. In the television series The New Zealand Wars, James Belich describes these events.
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