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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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