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The New Zealand wars 1820-72 / Ian Knight ; illustrated by Raffaele Ruggeri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Ian, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Men-at-arms series ; 487.
- Men-at-Arms ; 487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Māori (New Zealand people)--Wars.
- Māori (New Zealand people).
- New Zealand--History--New Zealand Wars, 1843-1847.
- New Zealand.
- New Zealand--History--New Zealand Wars, 1860-1872.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (125 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England ; Long Island City, New York : Osprey Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups maintained fortified villages or pas.The small early British coastal settlements were tolerated, and in the 1820s a chief named Hongi Hika travelled to Britain with a missionary and returned lad
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Pre-Colonial Maori Society; The Musket Wars, c. 1820-43; The Flagstaff War, 1843-47; Wars for Land, 1850s-1870s; The Maori Warrior; British Troops; Colonial New Zealand Troops; Further Reading; Plate Commentaries; Related Titles; Imprint
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780962788
- 1780962789
- 9781780962795
- 1780962797
- OCLC:
- 881163752
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