War in Tauranga 1864
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The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa campaign in Tauranga is best known for the notable British Army loss at Gate Pa. However, this victory for local Ngāi Te Rangi was short-lived and confiscation of their whenua proceeded after their significant defeat at Te Ranga and the loss of their leader, Rāwiri Puhirake. SCIS no. 1966017
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Gate Pa, Tauranga.
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The Battle of Gate Pa
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Scene in the pits, Gate Pah
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The Potiriwhi, Code of Conduct
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Pukehinahina,Gate Pā: A personal Māori perspective
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Monument to Rāwiri Puhirake
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Buddy Mikaere on the Battle of Gate Pā
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150 years since the Battle of Te Ranga
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Surrender of the Tauranga natives at Te Papa.
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Te Ranga NZ Wars memorial
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Battle of Te Ranga
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Te Ranga battle site, Tauranga
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"Te Harawera Tauranga"
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Tauranga naval NZ Wars memorial
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Camp Te Papa, Tauranga.
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Tauranga in 1864
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Officers' mess hut, Tauranga
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Pene Taka Tuaia
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THE WAR AT TAURANGA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) February 5. (Daily Southern Cross, 01 March 1867)
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Hēnare Taratoa and the Code of Conduct
“On taking possession (of the pa), Lieutenant-Colonel Booth and some men were found still living, and, to the credit of the native, had not been maltreated; nor had any of the bodies of the killed been mutilated.” Dispatch by Lt-General Cameron to Sir George Grey. It was the preacher and teacher, Hēnare Taratoa who formulated a code of conduct that set out the behaviour for Māori fighting at Gate Pā in 1864. For example Rule 1 read that: If wounded or (captured) whole, and butt of the musket or hilt of the sword be turned to me (he) (British soldier) will be saved. True to their word, the night after the battle some Māori fighters tended to the wounded British troops left behind in Gate Pā.
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The aftermath of Gate Pa and Te Ranga battles
Low-level warfare continued after battles at Gate Pa and Te Ranga, as British troops and kaupapa destroyed local Māori papa kainga and crops. Raupatu was severe. Eventually, almost 300,000 acres of land was confiscated from Tauranga Moana mainly from iwi who fought at Gate Pā and Te Ranga. Today Ngāi Te Rangi retains just 2 percent of their original rohe.
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Tuaia, Pene Taka
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Gate Pā
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Redoubt built on the site of Gate Pa
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Puhirake, Rāwiri
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Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :Taratoa, lay preacher. Killed at Te Ranga, 21st June 1864.
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Surviving Gate Pa
Just what was it like to be under a British bombardment? Heni Pore who survived the battle of Gate Pā recounts that Māori in Gate Pā were holding a religious service and were on the last blessing when the first shell fell around daybreak. It didn’t fall on the service instead she said it went “right into our hangi…and the next moment we saw the potatoes we had scrapped flying high in the air, all over the place.”
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Troops depart for Tauranga
William Fox, Colonial Secretary and Native Affairs Minister, ordered British troops to Tauranga in early 1864. Endorsed and actioned by General Cameron, the reasoning was that this would stop any reinforcements and logistics from Tauranga Moana iwi reaching Kingitanga in the Waikato who were then fighting British troops. For local Māori the arrival of troops was justifiably unreasonable, (especially when the harbour was blockaded, and British troops constructed 2 redoubts) and they began to prepare for the inevitable conflict. Apart from the battle at Matatā, the first major engagement was at Pukehinahina (Gate Pā) followed by the equally disastrous (for Ngāi Te Rangi) Te Ranga battle.
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The attack on Gate Pā
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The Tauranga Campaign
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The story of Gate Pā 1864
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Traces of Pukehinahina
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Battle of Gate Pa remembered 150 years on
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The Tauranga Bush Campaign
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General Cameron’s official account of the attack on Tauranga Pā
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Traces of Pukehinahina
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The Tauranga Campaign
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Battle of Gate Pā
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The Tauranga battles of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina) and Te Ranga
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The Tauranga War
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Captain John Charles Hamilton
Mid 1864, a reporter from the New Zealander visited the graveyard at Te Papa, Tauranga. He commented on the graves, of British troops who had fallen at the Battle of Gate Pā. In describing one in particular the reporter noted that the officer had “sprung upon the parapet on reaching the Pā, shouting, “ Follow me, men!” and was promptly shot through the head. This was Captain John Charles Hamilton, naval commander of the Esk, one of many officers who died at the Battle of Gate Pā. In fact, of the nine British officers that attended a dinner the night before the battle only one survived. The city Hamilton was named after Captain John Charles Hamilton despite the fact he never visited it.
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Gate Pa: Lest we forget
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Plan of Gate Pā
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Robley, Horatio Gordon 1840-1930 :Surrender of the Ngaiterangi at Te Papa - coming in with arms
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Gate Pa battle
As planned Māori fighters at Gate Pa held their fire (so that British troops would think the Pā deserted or that Māori had mostly been killed in the bombardment.) They waited in silence until the soldiers were in close range then Rawiri gave the order ‘Puhia!’ (fire!) After that there was furious and terrible hand-to-hand combat fighting. Māori fighters fired their muskets and shotguns, then used their tomahawks, mere, or the butt ends of their guns to drive back the British troops. Within ten minutes the British assault party suffered 100 casualties. Then they fled.
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Hēnare Taratoa
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General Cameron at Gate Pā
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Lieutenant-Colonel Booth at Gate Pā
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Horatio Gordon Robley: Paintings from the War in Tauranga (1864)
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Plan of attack on Gate Pā
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Breach at Gate Pa, morning of April 30, 1864
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The battles of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina) & Te Ranga
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