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| | The Taranaki Report - Kaupapa Tuatahi |
 | | Waikato reinforcements arrived seeking revenge, and the local hapu who had not been engaged at Mahoetahi continued to harass the army while constructing further pa. At the end of December, Pratt took the field once more, carefully advancing by sap before assaulting strongly defended pa at Kairau and Huirangi on the northern approaches to Waitara. |
 | | In Waikato, it was seen as a direct challenge to the Kingitanga, along with various other measures aimed at military intervention, including the construction of the military road from south Auckland towards the King's inner border at Mangatawhiri. |
 | | 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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