One of Queen Victoria's 'little wars' to build the British Empire
The Second Maori War, or First Taranaki War, was one more bloody
instalment of the conflicts between European settlers and the
indigenous Maori people in the wars of dominance that marred the
creation of New Zealand as a unified country. As usual the
Europeans had little to their credit on their side of the dispute
which centred around the dubious sale of tracts of land. As the
Maoris objected by protest and eventually by force, the British
Army was called in to subdue them. Predictably, the Maoris proved
no easy opponent to dominate. They possessed a strong martial
tradition and were masters of the deep forest and builders of
strong and difficult to assault fortifications known as 'pahs'.
Several bloody battles ensued around New Plymouth, in the Taranaki
district, in which the Crown forces learned by serious defeat the
folly of underestimating a 'primitive enemy'. The war ended in a
stalemate, but the conflicts which would be fought before New
Zealand would be at peace were not yet over. This is a rare account
of the Second Maori War written by a contemporary witness.
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