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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kawiti
While Heke occupied the pa itself, Kawiti and his men were skirmishing in the scrub and gullies around the Pa. They successfully prevented the British from launching a coordinated attack on the Pa but at quite a heavy cost in casualties.
Kawiti's masterstroke was the addition of flanking angles to the perimeter of the pa which can be seen in the middle and extreme right of the drawing.
Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rahiri he was born in the north of New Zealand to the Ngati Hine hapu, one of the subtribes of the Ngapuhi.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kawiti   (919 words)

  
  Kawiti
Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rahiri he was born in the north of New Zealand to the Ngati Hine hapu, one of the subtribes of the Ngapuhi.
Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February, 1840 seeing that it would, inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Maori land.
While Heke occupied the Pa itself, Kawiti and his men were skirmishing in the scrub and gullies around the Pa. They successfully prevented the British from launching a coordinated attack on the Pa but at quite a heavy cost in casualties.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/k/ka/kawiti.html   (504 words)

  
  Kawiti   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rahiri he was born in the north of New Zealand to the Ngati Hine hapu, one of the subtribes of the Ngapuhi.
Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February, 1840 seeing that it would, inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Maori land.
While Heke occupied the Pa itself, Kawiti and his men were skirmishing in the scrub and gullies around the Pa. They successfully prevented the British from launching a coordinated attack on the Pa but at quite a heavy cost in casualties.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Kawiti.html   (533 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > First Maori War   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kawiti, one of the leaders of local tribe, the Ngapuhi[?], had spent his whole life in inter-tribal warfare in which Ngapuhi were usually the winners.
Kawiti and his warriors escaped, Heke recovered from his wounds, and a new and even stronger Pa was being built.
Kawiti and Heke both sued for peace and Tamati Waka Nene[?] argued on their behalf suggesting that clemency was the best way to ensure peace in the North.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fi/First_Maori_War?title=Sir_George_Grey   (3275 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Kawiti, one of the leaders of local tribe, the Ngā Puhi, had spent his whole life in inter-tribal warfare in which Ngā Puhi were usually the winners.
Kawiti and his warriors escaped, Heke recovered from his wounds, and a new and even stronger pā was being built.
Kawiti and Heke both sued for peace and Tāmati Wāka Nene argued on their behalf suggesting that clemency was the best way to ensure peace in the North.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=The_Flagstaff_War   (3397 words)

  
 Kawiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Te Ruki Kawiti (c1770 -1854) was a prominent Māori chief.
Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 believing that it would inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Māori land.
After Ruapekapeka, Kawiti and a reluctant Heke made their peace with Wāka Nene who in turn insisted that the British accept it.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/kawiti   (526 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Kawiti, one of the leaders of local tribe, the Ngā Puhi, had spent his whole life in inter-tribal warfare in which Ngā Puhi were usually the winners.
Hone Heke and Kawiti were victorious and the Pākehā (Europeans), symbolised by their flag pole, had been humbled.
Kawiti and Heke both sued for peace and Tāmati Wāka Nene argued on their behalf suggesting that clemency was the best way to ensure peace in the North.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Flagstaff_War   (3205 words)

  
 The Battle for Kawiti's Ohaeawai Pa
Kawiti lost between one and ten soldiers killed during the entire British siege and attack.
Kawiti also displayed the hindsight of the great leader he was when he despatched messengers around the country carrying models of Ohaeawai Pa. This ensured his adaptations of the traditional pa and his other innovations would come back to haunt the British time and time again.
Kawiti was not only able to fight again another day but his support increased was also significantly after the battle.
www.historyorb.com /nz/ohaeawai.shtml   (849 words)

  
 Kawiti Information
Te Ruki Kawiti (c1770 -1854) was a prominent Māori chief.
Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840 believing that it would inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Māori land.
When in March 1845 Heke cut down the flag pole at Kororareka for the fourth time thereby initiating the First Māori War Kawiti created a diversion by attacking the town.
www.bookrags.com /Kawiti   (470 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
Kawiti was not in a trusting mood when confronted by Hobson and other British officials at the Waitangi meeting on 5 and 6 February 1840.
Kawiti saw the flagstaff as a symbol of the assertion of British sovereignty over Maori land, and was determined that it should not be re-erected (which it was not, until 1858).
Kawiti is said to have pressed a kotuku feather into the hat of the senior British officer, as a gesture of accord.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1K4&QuickSearch=true   (1826 words)

  
 Te Ruki Kawiti | NZHistory
Kawiti, probably born in the 1770s in northern New Zealand, was a notable Nga Puhi chief and warrior and a skilled military tactician.
The northern war of 1845-46 involved the forces of Kawiti and Heke against British troops and Maori allies.
The pa was abandoned, and although it was not an outright victory for the British, Kawiti and Heke negotiated a peace at the end of January.
www.nzhistory.net.nz /people/te-ruki-kawiti   (358 words)

  
 Jamie Sinclair Family Australia: Second Generation
The attention of the whole Island is drawn to this struggle and the future state of the Colony depends on the result...and Kawiti sallied his warriors against one battery and Despard quickly responded with a frontal assault on the pa. 250 crack troops attacked to be met with a devastating close-range volley from the defenders.
Most of the garrison of the pa were forced to withdraw during that night; only Kawiti and a dozen or so of his warriors remaining in the pa to meet the attack which came the next day.
Kawiti, who was already in his seventies when the war began, never attempted to regain his position, but Heke became very powerful and remained so until his death in 1850.
users.tpg.com.au /users/barrymor/jamies/D0/I0004318.HTM   (2508 words)

  
 Taipa sewerage claim
Kawiti objected to the water right on the grounds of both fishing and the importance of the Otengi headland (document A26).
Nonetheless, Kawiti and R S Gregory objected to the outfall from off the headland, perhaps hoping that the tribe's acquisition of the headland in the interim, might have made some difference; and the Planning Tribunal was sympathetic.
G P Adamson and Kawiti Tomars in fact objected, a matter the Council appears to have overlooked, but with Kawiti still relying on the threatened despoliation of fishing grounds and the significance of Otengi Point (document A42, as produced by the claimants).
www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /oldwaitangi/text/wai017/doc024.html   (2116 words)

  
 Te Ruki Kawiti was a prominent Maori Maori chieftain c1770...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Descended from Nukutawhiti and Rahiri he was born in the north of New Zealand New Zealand to the Ngati Hine hapu hapu, one of the subtribes of the Ngapuhi Ngapuhi.
Kawiti refused to sign the Treaty of Waitangi Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February, 1840 seeing that it would, inevitably lead to further European encroachment and the loss of Maori land.
While Heke occupied the Pa Pa itself, Kawiti and his men were skirmishing in the scrub and gullies around the Pa. They successfully prevented the British from launching a coordinated attack on the Pa but at quite a heavy cost in casualties.
www.biodatabase.de /Kawiti   (525 words)

  
 Jamie Sinclair Family Australia: Second Generation
The attention of the whole Island is drawn to this struggle and the future state of the Colony depends on the result...and Kawiti sallied his warriors against one battery and Despard quickly responded with a frontal assault on the pa. 250 crack troops attacked to be met with a devastating close-range volley from the defenders.
Most of the garrison of the pa were forced to withdraw during that night; only Kawiti and a dozen or so of his warriors remaining in the pa to meet the attack which came the next day.
Kawiti, who was already in his seventies when the war began, never attempted to regain his position, but Heke became very powerful and remained so until his death in 1850.
www4.tpgi.com.au /users/barrymor/jamies/d0/I0004318.HTM   (2508 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Kawiti - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Te Ruki Kawiti (c1770 -1854) was a prominent Māori chief.
He took a number of Ngāti Whātua captive and refused to hand them over to Hongi Hika, preferring instead to return them to their own people.
When in March 1845 Heke cut down the flag pole at Kororareka for the fourth time thereby initiating the First Māori War Kawiti created a diversion by attacking the town.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Kawiti   (524 words)

  
 KAWITI - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Kawiti, the fighting chief of Kawakawa (Bay of Islands), was a member of the Ngati-Hine hapu of the Ngapuhi.
Kawiti lost a son in the fighting, was slightly wounded himself, and his men were twice dispersed.
Kawiti possessed a noble and chivalrous nature and was a pillar of strength to the Ngapuhi.
www.teara.govt.nz /1966/K/Kawiti/en   (656 words)

  
 TE AO HOU The New World [electronic resource]
Kawiti, Mataroria, Motiti and others tried warriors of a hundred battles, were at Ruapekapeka during the planning and preparing of this new pa. Large puriri trees were felled, and the trunks were used to form the pallisades.
This is the ancestral home of the Ngatihine tribe, where, for seven generations the remains of Hineamaru and her descendants lie buried in the Pauaka-a-Hineamaru.
To Kawiti, there was in relation to this battle nothing of importance to relate, for no pakeha chief was killed here.
teaohou.natlib.govt.nz /teaohou/issue/Mao16TeA/c22.html   (3495 words)

  
 The northern maori wars
By the early 1840’s tensions between native Maori and the ever increasing number of white ‘invaders’ to the northern part of New Zealand were reaching boiling point.
Kawiti now set about building a pa a few miles from Puketutu, which he called Ohaewai.
Both Hone Heke and Kawiti were granted free pardons by the British.
nm.essortment.com /maorihonehkek_rnkd.htm   (933 words)

  
 kawiti glowworm caves
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 The Baldwin Project: Our Empire Story by H. E. Marshall
Heke was at Ikorangi, and his friend Kawiti at Ruapekapeka, the Bat's Nest.
As for his old friend Kawiti, he lived to the age of eighty, and then died of measles, a new disease brought into the country by the white men.
But in 1857 Kawiti's son led four hundred of his people to the spot, and in token of friendship they raised a new flagstaff.
www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=marshall&book=empire&story=storming   (792 words)

  
 NZ Army - 1827 - 1899 Origins & The New Zealand Wars
Hone Heke and his fellow chief Te Ruki Kawiti attacked the settlement of Kororareka with 600 Māori warriors against 250 armed defenders.
After a day’s fighting during which time the flagstaff was dropped for the fourth time, the attackers withdrew, leaving behind 13 dead settlers (the flagstaff stayed down until after Hone Heke’s death in 1850).
Hone Heke and Kawiti built a second pa at Ohaeawai.
www.army.mil.nz /culture-and-history/nz-army-history/historical-chronology/1827.htm   (1012 words)

  
 MySpace.com - KAWITI - NZ - Fusion / Acoustic / Roots Music - www.myspace.com/kawiti
Kawiti is a unique and self styled artist.
His love and understanding of music began at a very young age, with watching his mum and dad in bands where he became immersed in music, the way we learn any language.
He also underwent extensive training in jazz, samba rhythms and many other genres including music education, all of which has contributed to his development of an extremely unique and diverse style; a fusion of flamenco, jazz, roots and reggae with a touch of funk and soul.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=159051535   (257 words)

  
 Te Ruki Kawiti - Wikipedia
Ko Te Ruki Kawiti (1770-80?-1854) nō Ngā Puhi, he tino rangatira, he toa tū taua, he mōhio ki te whakahaere pakanga.
I te wā o te pakanga i Te Tai Tokerau (1845-46), ka uru ngā ope a Kawiti rāua ko Heke ki te whawhai ki ngā hōia o Ingarangi.
Nō te wā i tae mai a Kāwana Hōri Kerei i te 1845, ka māmingatia ngā hōia o Ingarangi e Kawiti ki te pā o Ruapekapeka, ka whakarērea te pā, ā, ahakoa ehara i te wikitōria mō te taha Ingarihi, ka noho a Kawiti rāua ko Heke ki te hohou i te rongo.
mi.wikipedia.org /wiki/Te_Ruki_Kawiti   (345 words)

  
 Waitangi Tribunal - Te Ruki Kawiti
Te Ruki Kawiti was born in the 1770s.
Kawiti was known as both a warrior and a whakaaio whenua among his people.
Before he died, Kawiti told his people to wait 'until the sandfly nips the pages of the book (the Treaty); then you will rise and oppose'.
www.waitangi-tribunal.govt.nz /resources/school_info/resourcekitsforschools/terukikawiti.asp   (259 words)

  
 NZ Colonial War Scenarios
Kawiti drove back the piquet at the small cannon, killing the gunner before it could be fired or spiked.
Kawiti attacked them in the rear before they could commence their assault on the pa. Leaving 60 men to face the pa, the remainder of the assault party engaged in close combat with Kawiti’s men.
Kawiti’s men had fought well, but were twice driven back by the assault party.
www.balagan.org.uk /war/nz/1845/scenarios.htm   (3514 words)

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