War in Wellington and Whanganui 1845-47
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The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa campaigns in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) and Whanganui were sparked by a growing demand for access to arable land by settlers who, from 1839, had arrived in these areas in increasing numbers. SCIS no. 1966001
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Boulcott's Farm NZ Wars memorial
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War in Wellington - War in Wellington
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Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
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The fight at Battle Hill
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![Image: From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku](https://thumbnailer.digitalnz.org/?resize=770&src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzetc.org%2Fetexts%2FCow01NewZ%2FCow01NewZ139a%28t120%29.jpg&format=webp&resize=368%253E "From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku")
From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku
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Topine Te Mamaku
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WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 31 July 1847)
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WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 04 August 1847)
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Te Rauparaha
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Te Rauparaha
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Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha‘s arrest was a controversial move by Governor George Grey. After the attack on Boucoult’s farm, Grey saw Te Rauparaha as a cause of rising tensions over occupation and ownership of whenua in the Hutt Valley. Even though it was Te Mamaku and his Upper Whanganui river taua that led the Hutt attack Grey decided he couldn’t be trusted and had Te Rauparaha arrested by troops at dawn on May 16th 1846. Te Rauparaha’s son wrote that on seeing his captured father, he told him, ‘Son, go to your tribes and tell them to remain in peace. Do not pay for my arrest with evil, only with that which is good. You must love the Europeans. There was no just cause for my having been arrested..."
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Eight killed in attack on Boulcott Farm
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Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial
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Wanganui. New Zealand. October 1847
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Wanganui N. Zealand.
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War in Whanganui - War in Whanganui
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Whanganui in 1841
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Photographer unknown: Memorial to New Zealand Wars in the Hutt Valley
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Bugler’s gallantry
This headline refers to the story of a young soldier, William Allen, who blew his bugle to warn his comrades but was cut down during an attack on Boulcott’s farm in 1846. Over the years the story has attracted popular attention, with paintings of Allen romanticised as a colonial hero. Other works like articles and poems stressed a ‘Boy's Own Adventure’ tale of British Empire service and sacrifice. The story also appeared in the 1886 Christmas edition of the Auckland Weekly News and a chapter of James Cowan’s book Hero stories of New Zealand. Recently the story has resurfaced in novels, and an opera. Contemporary academic papers have also analysed the story from a post-colonial perspective.
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The Taita Stockade, 1846.
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[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Stockade in clearing, Taita] 17 Oct. 184[6 or 1847?]
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The Taita Post, Volume 53, 1921, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1921
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Portrait of Honiana Te Puni-kokopu, by Charles Heaphy
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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Te Puni seated in a whare in Pito-one Pa] N. Z. 1860
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Te Wharepōuri
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Te Wharepouri
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Te Wharepouri, Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi - Biography
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58th and 99th Regiments advancing up Battle Hill
It was short-lived but also a cold and wet winter campaign that saw British forces track Te Rangihaeata and his taua up the Horokiwi valley north of Wellington in August 1846. Eventually they came to Te Rangihaeata’s hastily prepared position on a ridgeline (now part of Battle Hill Farm Forest Park.) A frontal attack was considered too dangerous after 3 soldiers died when they came too close to Māori defences. The thousands of musket rounds fired by the troops had little effect as did the shells from mortars the British army dragged up the hill. On 13 August friendly Ngāti Awa fighters discovered Te Rangihaeata and his supporters had escaped during the night.
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Rutland Stockade, Whanganui
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Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui
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Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa
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Honiana Te Puni
Honiana Te Puni’s (Te Ati Awa) gravestone pictured here in 1940 records the enormous gratitude and reverence Pakeha had for his support during the early settlement of Wellington and the subsequent conflict in the mid-1840s. He even received a sword of honour from Queen Victoria. That support was also recognised by Pakeha at Te Puni’s funeral in 1870 which, “amounted to a state funeral.” The monument reads in-part (in Māori and English) “…erected by the New Zealand Government in consideration of the unbroken friendship between him (Honiana Te Puni ) and the pakeha."
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Ngāti Toarangatira
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Battle Hill Farm Reserve
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History of Te Ātiawa
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Governor George Grey
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Te Puni-kokopu
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Wellington battles, 1846
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The fight at Battle Hill
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Wellington and Whanganui wars, 1846–1848
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Wellington/Hutt Valley 1846
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Wellington settlement and war in the Hutt
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The dispatch carrier
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The New Zealand Hutt Valley Campaign 1846
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Whanganui 1847
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Early Wellington
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Hero stories of New Zealand
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Boulcott’s farm
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Young Allen, the brave bugler boy
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Fighting in Whanganui
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The Governor - The reverend traitor
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St John's Wood, Whanganui, 1847
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Skirmish at St John’s Wood, Whanganui
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The war at Wanganui
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The shadow of war
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Official despatches
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Hohepa Te Umuroa
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Painting of Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley
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The end of the war in Wellington
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Rutland stockade, Whanganui
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Artist unknown :(Pukenamu) Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, New Zealand [1847]
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The Wairau Affray 1843
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The Northern War 1845-46
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War in Tauranga 1864
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War in Taranaki 1860-61 and 1864-66
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The story of Tītokowaru 1868-69
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