Chapter 8: The Storming-Party at Ohaeawai - The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)

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Chapter 8: The Storming-Party at Ohaeawai - The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)

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PENE TAUI'S STOCKADE was commanded at a range of less than one-third of a mile by the hill Puketapu, upon which Despard's Maori allies flew the British ensign. A modern field-gun at that distance would quickly have reduced the palisade to splinters. But what little impression was made by gun-fire upon the flax-masked defences was repaired by the...

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1955

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James Cowan, F.R.G.S.

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