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 Encyclopedia: Second Taranaki War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Taranaki is a region in New Zealands North Island and the name of the mountain which is the regions main feature, Geography and people Taranaki is situated on a peninsula on the west coast of the North Island, surrounding the volcanic peak.
The Invasion of the Waikato was an invasion during the Maori Wars fought in the North Island of New Zealand from July 1863 to April 1864 between the military forces of the Colonial Government and a federation of Maori tribes known as the King Movement (Kiingitanga).
The Third Taranaki War began two years later, and is generally known as Titokowaru's War Titokowarus War is a conflict that took place in the Taranaki Region of the North Island of New Zealand between Wanganui and Mount Taranaki from June 1868 to March 1869.
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 New Zealand land wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The outcome of this war was the major confiscation of Māori land, which quickly provoked the Second Taranaki War.
In the Flagstaff War the Māori allies were wholly independent of British command: was at war with Hone Heke.
What became known as the Second Taranaki War was basically the reaction of the Māori to the wholesale confiscation of their land by the colonial government who originally used imperial troops for this, but the commander, General Duncan Cameron, resigned in protest.
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 Second Taranaki War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Second Taranaki War is the name of a series of conflicts between the Maori and European settlers in the Taranaki province of New Zealand between 1864 and 1866.
Taranaki Province is shaped like a large triangle sticking westwards from the body of the North Island.
The Third Taranaki War began two years later, and is generally known as Titokowaru's War.
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 Science Fair Projects - Titokowaru's War
Titokowaru's War is a conflict that took place in the Taranaki Region of the North Island of New Zealand between Wanganui and Mount Taranaki from June 1868 to March 1869.
The campaigns of McDonnell and Chute that ended the Second Taranaki War were followed by the punitive confiscation of tribal land during 1865 and 1866.
It was a shattering defeat of the same magnitude Puketakuere during the First Taranaki War, indeed the nature of the engagement was very similar.
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 Second Taranaki War -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Some historians feel that the these conflicts should not be described as a war as they cannot be separated from other incidents happening in the (The smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait) North Island at around the same time.
However the conflict in Taranaki also had its roots in the (Click link for more info and facts about First Taranaki War) First Taranaki War.
The Maori continued to attack and kill settlers while the Army and the Settler Militia continued their raids on Maori villages and (A unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter) Pa.
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 Maori Wars biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first skirmish of the Land Wars was the 1843 Wairau Massacre at the north end of the South Island.
The Waikato War, including the Tauranga Campaign, was the biggest of all the New Zealand Land Wars.
Waka Nene was at war with Hone Heke.
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 NEW ZEALAND LAND WARS FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Waikato War, including the Tauranga_Campaign, was the biggest of all the New Zealand Wars.
The outcome of this war was the major confiscation of Māori land, which quickly provoked the Second_Taranaki_War.
In the Flagstaff War the Māori allies were wholly independent of British command: Waka_Nene was at war with Hone_Heke.
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 The Taranaki Report - Kaupapa Tuatahi
The second war arose from the Government's breach of the peace, the failure to inquire promptly and honestly into Pekapeka, the military reoccupation of Omata and Tataraimaka, and the military trespass on Maori land.
It may be said of the second war, however, that it was marked by a descent to attrition, as the Government faced criticism over progress and as Maori saw that the war was no longer a dispute on the method of buying land but part of a programme for confiscating their land.
With the forts, redoubts, and military camps of south Taranaki abandoned, the settlers in refuge at Whanganui, and 1000 Maori troops encamped in a pa nearby, and with the contemporaneous attacks from Te Kooti in Poverty Bay and the Bay of Plenty, the colony faced its darkest moment.
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 Maori Autonomy - Waitangi Tribunal report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Further, it is the fundamental issue in the Taranaki claims and appears to be the issue most central to the affairs of colonised indigenes throughout the world.
Perhaps this was because the war was not only longer there but more intense and severe and because, despite the marshalling of several thousand Irnperial troops, it was in Taranaki that a Maori ascendency was most maintained.
In the governance of the Taranaki province, since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, land has been reserved for the bush and the birds but not one acre could be guaranteed as a haven for Maori.
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 The New Zealand Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The war fought in South Taranaki between 1868 and 1869 is sometimes given a name like 'Titokowaru's War.' For example, in the 1920s, historian James Cowan called it 'Titokowaru's campaign'.
Following the earlier war in North Taranaki of 1860/61, the lands of Maori 'deemed to have been in armed rebellion against the Crown' were confiscated.
Titokowaru's war was substantially a war fought against the enforcement of these land confiscations.
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 Scoop: Ngati Tama settlement becomes law
The Crown did not officially correct Taranaki Maori understandings of it, and it was left to individual colonists to explain the meaning of martial law to individual Maori.
The second Commission recommended a system of management, which was subsequently adopted, that placed the reserves under the control of the Public Trustee rather than the owners.
The Sim Commission’s recommendations for an annuity of £5,000 for all the Taranaki confiscations and a single payment of £300 for the loss of property at Parihaka were not discussed with the iwi concerned by the government of the day and were never accepted as adequate.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PA0311/S00436.htm   (4480 words)

  
 Patea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Patea is the second-largest town in southern Taranaki, New Zealand.
The town was initially founded as a garrison settlement during the New Zealand land wars of the 1860s.
The town came to national attention in the second half of the 20th century for the closure of the main employer, a freezing works.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Patea.htm   (247 words)

  
 Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
In 1859 Te Teira, a Maori of the Taranaki area, sold his Waitara River land to the colonial government without the consent of his tribe, precipitating the First Taranaki War (1860–61).
The fighting resumed in the Second Taranaki War in April 1863 after Governor Grey built an attack road into the Waikato area and drove the Taranaki Maori from the Tataraimaka block.
While fighting raged in Taranaki once again, the Waikato War began in July 1863, and the Waikato River region, the centre of the King Movement tribes, became the main target of the Europeans.
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 Taranaki War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Both conflicts are so named because they took place in the Taranaki region, on the North Island of New Zealand.
A third conflict, Titokowaru's War (1868 – 1869) also took place in Taranaki.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taranaki_War   (108 words)

  
 Maori Strategy in the Taranaki War
The second aspect of the strategy was the destruction of settler property.
The settlement of Taranaki had ceased to exist as a viable economic and social district by the end of the war.
The Taranaki War made the British determined to smash the King Movement as it now presented a serious barrier to British law and order in the North Island.
www.historyorb.com /nz/strategy.shtml   (798 words)

  
 TAURANGA CAMPAIGN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gate Pa was the single most devastating defeat suffered by the British military in the whole of the Maori Wars.
General Cameron was probably the most able of the different commanders of the Imperial forces to serve in New Zealand.
In so far as the Tauranga Campaign was a sideshow of the Waikato War it also marks the tacit end of that conflict.
www.witwib.com /Tauranga_Campaign   (1569 words)

  
 Puke Ariki - Ngā kōrero mō Taranaki - Tohu Kakahi of Parihaka
They were the two rangatira of Parihaka, a peaceful village that sits between Mt Taranaki and the Tasman Sea.
This settlement was also the heart of Māori opposition to the taking of their lands by European settlers and the government.
At the end of the second Taranaki war in 1866, Tohu and Te Whiti began living at Parihaka, which was built on land confiscated by the government on 2 September 1865.
www.pukeariki.com /mi/stories/tangatawhenua/tohukakahi.asp   (2360 words)

  
 Taranaki War - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Taranaki War - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A third conflict, Titokowaru's War also took place in Taranaki.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Taranaki_War   (107 words)

  
 The Ultimate Te Mamaku - American History Information Guide and Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During the Musket Wars Te Mamaku was sometimes allied with Te Rauparaha and sometimes fought against him.
However at the outbreak of the Hutt Valley Campaign in 1846 he was firmly on the side of Te Rangihaeata in resisting the encroachment of European settlers onto Maori land.
He did not get involved in the Battle of Moutoa island but was probably fighting alongside the Hau Hau forces at Ohoutahi, Second Taranaki War.
www.historymania.com /american_history/Te_Mamaku   (439 words)

  
 WWW-VL: History: Military History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Second Taranaki War
Some historians feel that the conflicts which happened in Taranaki province between 1864 and 1866 should not be described as a war in that they cannot be separated from other incident happening in the North Island at around the same time.
This was the last active role the Imperial Army played in the New Zealand Wars, within a few months the regiments had all been withdrawn.
The New Zealand Wars by James Cowan, P.D. Hasselberg, Government Printer, 1922 and 1983.
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 Second Taranaki War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Neither of these conflicts finished cleanly but in their turn also sparked a series of Pakeha/Maori incidents in other parts of the Island However the conflict in Taranaki also had its roots in the First Taranaki War.
Keith Sinclair (editor), The Oxford Illustrated History of New Zealand, second edition.
James Cowan, P.D. Hasselberg, The New Zealand Wars.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/second_taranaki_war   (2510 words)

  
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The North Island was riven by war and political turmoil while the South island was prospering and prosperous.
Maori people are the second largest ethnic group (14.7%).
The silver fern is a national emblem worn by New Zealanders representing their country in sport.
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 Ships
After the second penetration of the Antarctic, the squadron rendezvoused in New Zealand in April 1840 to survey Pacific islands northward toward the Hawaiians, where the ships were repaired late in the year.
The sloop departed New York 25 April 1835 with Enterprise, on her second voyage to the Far East.
She was re-registered as a yacht and flew the White Ensign as Scott was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
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Comprehensive naval aviation website invaluable to genealogists, with extensive Roll of Honour lists for the Second World War of Fleet Air Arm personnel of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
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 The Taranaki Report - Kaupapa Tuatahi
The name of the person or party that produced each document or set of documents in evidence appears in brackets after each reference, except where the source of the document is already clear.
A13† J Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict, Penguin, 1988
I16 Cathy Marr, 'An Overview History of the Taranaki Confiscation Claim, 1920s-1980s: From the Sim Commission to the Submission of Taranaki Claims to the Waitangi Tribunal', report commissioned by the Waitangi Tribunal, 15 April 1993 (claimant counsel)
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 Puke Ariki - Resources - Voices and Images from the First Taranaki War
Puke Ariki - Resources - Voices and Images from the First Taranaki War
Voices and Images from the First Taranaki War
A documentary with contemporary quotes and photos from the First Taranaki War.
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