by Danny Keenan | Oct 24, 2020 | Campaigns
Whanganui – a town of two stockades 19 May 1847 The British Army were stationed in Whanganui to protect settler communities against Māori from upriver who were suspected of having hostile intentions towards Pākehā. Land disputes and contested purchases...
by Danny Keenan | Sep 4, 2020 | Politics of the 19th Century
Māori Land After the Wars As Māori throughout New Zealand returned to their villages and cultivations in order to once again secure themselves socially and, more critically, economically, the government embarked upon its vigorous legislative programme to change the...
by Danny Keenan | Sep 1, 2020 | Consequences
The End of the Wars By 1872, the wars against Māori were over. The last shots were fired by the Armed Constabulary at Mangaone, south of Waikaremoana, on 14 February 1872. Thereafter, Te Kooti Rikiranga and his few remaining followers crossed over into the King...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 23, 2020 | Causes
New Settlers from Britain As Keith Sinclair has argued, the New Zealand Wars came about because new settlers from Britain had arrived in New Zealand. New Zealand was first settled by Europeans from Australia and Britain in the 1790s. New Zealand’s first...
by Danny Keenan | Aug 21, 2020 | Wars Library
Pre Contact Māori Life and Māori Warfare Atholl Anderson, When All The Moa Ovens Grew Cold, 1983. Janet Davidson, The Prehistory of New Zealand, 1984. Aileen Fox, Prehistoric Maori Fortifications in the North Island of New Zealand, 1976. A.P. Vayda, Maori Warfare,...
