The First Taranaki War (also known as the North Taranaki War) was an armed conflict over land ownership and sovereignty that took place between Māori and...
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Taranaki is a region in the west of New Zealand's North Island. It is named after its main geographical feature, the stratovolcano Mount Taranaki, also...
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Taranaki wars were a series of conflicts in New Zealand's Taranaki Province in the 1860s which form a major part of the New Zealand Wars: The First Taranaki...
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Second Taranaki War is a term used by some historians for the period of hostilities between Māori and the New Zealand Government in the Taranaki district...
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the Taranaki and Waikato campaigns, the lives of about 1,800 Māori and 800 Europeans were lost, and total Māori losses over the course of all the wars may...
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Victoria Cross were the First Taranaki War of 1860–1861 and the Waikato-Hauhau Māori War of 1863–1866. The First Taranaki War was fought over land rights...
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Taranaki (Tuturu) is a Māori iwi of New Zealand. Taranaki iwi were an important part of the First and Second Taranaki Wars. At least 13 members of Taranaki...
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War First Punic War First Sacred War First Schleswig War First Servile War First Sino-Japanese War First Taranaki War First Turko-Egyptian War First War...
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Te Āti Awa (redirect from Te Atiawa Taranaki)
Te Āti Awa is a Māori iwi with traditional bases in the Taranaki and Wellington regions of New Zealand. Approximately 17,000 people registered their affiliation...
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Invasion of the Waikato (redirect from Waikato War)
groups. Plans for the invasion were drawn up at the close of the First Taranaki War in 1861 but the Colonial Office and New Zealand General Assembly opposed...
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Second Boer War and in 1911 became the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). During the First World War, the regiment provided a company to each of the battalions...
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Tītokowaru's War was a military conflict that took place in the South Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island from June 1868 to March 1869 between...
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December 1850 – 4 April 1923) was a storekeeper and local politician in Taranaki, New Zealand, and played a leading role in the development of the town...
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William Odgers (category Royal Navy personnel of the New Zealand Wars)
was 26 years old, and a leading seaman in the Royal Navy during the First Taranaki War in New Zealand when the following deed took place for which he was...
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Military history of New Zealand (redirect from New Zealand World War II)
peace and reached an agreement with Te Mamaku in February 1848. The First Taranaki War originated from land disputes as settlers moved into Māori land. A...
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Wiremu Kīngi (category People from Taranaki)
Chief of the Te Āti Awa Tribe, was leader of the Māori forces in the First Taranaki War. He was born in 1795-1800 in Manukorihi pa, near Waitara. He was one...
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Waitara, New Zealand (category Populated places in Taranaki)
northeast of New Plymouth. Waitara was the site of the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars in 1860 following the attempted purchase of land for British settlers...
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Mount Taranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga) (also called Mt Egmont) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North...
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provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
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Indian Rebellion of 1857 (redirect from First War Of Indian Independence)
Retrieved 6 February 2022. The Empire, Sydney, Australia, 11 July 1857, or Taranaki Herald, New Zealand, 29 August 1857. Michael Adas, "Twentieth Century Approaches...
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Hemi Te Waka, better known as Taranaki Jim or Waikato Jim, was a Māori warrior who fought on both side of the New Zealand Wars during the 1860s. He served...
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HMS Niger (1846) (section The First Taranaki War)
Station and was involved in the New Zealand War 1860 – 61. On 28 March 1860, during the First Taranaki War, a party of approximately 60 marines and bluejackets...
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New Zealand Army (redirect from List of New Zealand divisions in World War II)
adopted by the Taranaki Regiment about 1911 and became general issue for all New Zealand units during the latter stages of World War I. The different...
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the challenge of ongoing Tainui support for Te Āti Awa during the First Taranaki War. In 1863, Tāwhiao was baptised into the Pai Mārire faith, taking his...
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Francis Gledhill (category People from Taranaki)
First Taranaki War. See "GLEDHILL, Francis Ullahorne, 1803-1882 (A395)". Retrieved 3 February 2008. "Obituary: the late Mr. F. U. Gledhill". Taranaki...
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Cape Egmont (category South Taranaki District)
a hui between 600 members of Taranaki, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru and Whanganui Māori iwi, discussing the First Taranaki War (1860–1861). There, it was agreed...
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This might be a list of wars involving New Zealand. New Zealand has participated in many armed conflicts, often alongside its allies such as the United...
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Ngāti Ruanui (category Taranaki)
time, Ruanui’s descendants spread across south Taranaki. Ngāti Ruanui was heavily involved in tribal wars during the 19th century. In 1816, the iwi was...
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movement's key concern in a letter to Browne at the close of the First Taranaki War in 1861. He said Waikato iwi had never signed the Treaty of Waitangi...
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Military history of Australia (section Taranaki War)
Victoria, and its deployment to New Zealand in 1860 during the First Taranaki War marked the first occasion that an Australian warship had been deployed overseas...
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