Wairau Plain.

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Title

Wairau Plain.

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Otago University Research Heritage

Description

Lower right (l.r.) of c. with brush: a; labels in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The Wairau Plain. A. The site of the massacre. In 1843 Mr Thompson, Police Magistrate went with a party of about fifty men to arrest Rauparaha and Rangihaeata on charge of arson, they having burnt the house of two surveyors. The Maoris refused to surrender and a fight ensued which resulted in the retreat of the Europeans

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Creator

Fox, William, 1812-1893

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https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5227

Related subjects

Coasts / Landscape / Plains

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