War in Wellington and Whanganui 1845-47

The New Zealand Wars | Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa campaigns in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) and Whanganui were sparked by a growing demand for access to arable land by settlers who, from 1839, had arrived in these areas in increasing numbers. SCIS no. 1966001

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Painting of Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley
Painting of Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley
1846 painting showing Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley.
Articles
War in Wellington - War in Wellington
In 1846 fighting broke out in the Wellington region when Ngāti Toa chief Te Rangihaeata backed local Maori opposed to European settlement in Hutt Valley. The campaign claimed few lives but effectiv...
Images
The fight at Battle Hill
The fight at Battle Hill
This 1846 painting shows troops advancing up Battle Hill to attack Te Rangihaeata's men.
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From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku
From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku
The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I: 1845–1864 - Chapter 14: The War at Wanganui - From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer , in the Municipal Art ...
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Topine Te Mamaku
Topine Te Mamaku
Photograph of Topine Te Mamaku seated on the ground in front of a tent wrapped in a blanket, taken in May 1885 at Tawhata by Alfred Burton Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom l...
Newspapers
WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 31 July 1847)
Newspapers
WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 04 August 1847)
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Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha
Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha was teina (junior) to his half-brother, Nohorua, yet due to his leadership abilities he commanded his people.
Images
Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha
In this 1840s image of Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha, he wears a feather in his hair and a pōhoi (feather-ball earring). Te Rauparaha is famous for the role he played during the musket wars. His br...
Images
Te Rauparaha sketch
Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha‘s arrest was a controversial move by Governor George Grey. After the attack on Boucoult’s farm, Grey saw Te Rauparaha as a cause of rising tensions over occupation and ownership of whe...
Images
Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial
Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial
This tombstone marks the grave of two British men who were killed in action on Battle Hill in August 1846.
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Wanganui. New Zealand. October 1847
Wanganui. New Zealand. October 1847
Margin below image in ink: Wanganui. N.Z. Oct.r 1847; on mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Wanganui 1847 showing stockades and settlers houses some of which were fortified. T.M.H.; label in ink in ...
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"Miss Gilfillan, Severely wounded by rebel Natives Apl. 1847"
"Miss Gilfillan, Severely wounded by rebel Natives Apl. 1847"
Copy photograph of a studio portrait of Miss Mary Gilfillan, who was badly injured in the Gilfillan massacre on 18 April 1847 at Matarawa, near Whanganui. Mary Gilfillan is seated at a table and r...
Images
Wanganui N. Zealand.
Wanganui N. Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Wanganui N. Zealand W. Fox 1857; on sketchbook mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: English Church and houses on site of the Avenue. Beyond are two large houses built an...
Articles
War in Whanganui - War in Whanganui
The confusion and uncertainty that had surrounded the New Zealand Company's land purchases in Whanganui erupted into violence in the autumn and winter of 1847. The conflict also involved long-stand...
Images
Whanganui in 1841
Whanganui in 1841
The new settlement of Petre or Whanganui (also known as Wanganui) in September 1841.
Images
Photographer unknown: Memorial to New Zealand Wars in the Hutt Valley
Photographer unknown: Memorial to New Zealand Wars in the Hutt Valley
Stone memorial to the men who fell at Boulcott's Stockade in the Hutt Valley during the New Zealand Wars. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film n...
Images
McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943 :A boy's heroism. 'Awake! Awake!' [1908]
Bugler’s gallantry
This headline refers to the story of a young soldier, William Allen, who blew his bugle to warn his comrades but was cut down during an attack on Boulcott’s farm in 1846. Over the years the story ...
Images
The Taita Stockade, 1846.
The Taita Stockade, 1846.
(Redrawn from the orinigal sketch by W. Swainson, F.R.S.)
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[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Stockade in clearing, Taita] 17 Oct. 184[6 or 1847?]
[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Stockade in clearing, Taita] 17 Oct. 184[6 or 1847?]
A small fenced stockade in a clearing, surrounded by large tree trunks. There are two buildings inside the stockade's fencing, both small. According to Elsdon Best - "Stake stockade at Taita near...
Research papers
The Taita Post, Volume 53, 1921, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1921
The Taita Post, Volume 53, 1921, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1921
As this place is always called “Taitai,” which, according to Mr. Buck, a surveyor, of Hutt, is its correct name, our early settlers must have formed their own ideas of how it should be spelt. The n...
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Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy
Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy
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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Te Puni seated in a whare in Pito-one Pa] N. Z. 1860
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Te Puni seated in a whare in Pito-one Pa] N. Z. 1860
Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the fa...
Archives
Te Wharepōuri
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Te Wharepōuri
Te Wharepōuri
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Te Wharepōuri, Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi
Te Wharepōuri, Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi
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The fight at Battle Hill, Horokiwi
58th and 99th Regiments advancing up Battle Hill
It was short-lived but also a cold and wet winter campaign that saw British forces track Te Rangihaeata and his taua up the Horokiwi valley north of Wellington in August 1846. Eventually they came...
Images
Rutland Stockade, Whanganui
Rutland Stockade, Whanganui
Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
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Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui
Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui
Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui, circa 1870s. Photograph taken by William James Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
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Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa
Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa
Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa, possibly on Maria Island, Tasmania, Australia, photographed between ca 1914-ca 1960. Caption on reverse of print reads: "Grave of one of the N Z Chiefs transported to V.D...
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Group of mourners at the grave of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, Wellington
Honiana Te Puni
Honiana Te Puni’s (Te Ati Awa) gravestone pictured here in 1940 records the enormous gratitude and reverence Pakeha had for his support during the early settlement of Wellington and the subsequent ...
Articles
Ngāti Toarangatira
The Ngāti Toarangatira people, originally from Kāwhia, have survived changing fortunes.
Images
Battle Hill Farm Reserve
On 6 August, 1846, government forces began their assault on Te Rangihaeata’s position at Horokiwi.
Articles
History of Te Ātiawa
Te Ātiawa stem from Toi-te-huatahi or Toi-kai-rakau, the wood eater.
Articles
Governor George Grey
George Grey is believed to have been born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1812.
Articles
Te Puni-kokopu
Honiana, as he was known in his youth, belonged to Ngati Te Whiti and Ngati Tawhirikura hapu of Te Ati Awa.
Articles
Wellington battles, 1846
A map showing the locations of armed encounters in the Wellington area in 1846.
Articles
The fight at Battle Hill
The attack on Te Rangihaeata’s position at Battle Hill began on 6 August 1846 in freezing rain.
Articles
Wellington and Whanganui wars, 1846–1848
From the time that British settlers arrived in the Wellington area in 1839, land disputes had caused friction between Māori and European.
Articles
Wellington/Hutt Valley 1846
In 1846, Governor George Grey ordered the British Army to Wellington.
Books
Wellington settlement and war in the Hutt
“Governor Grey turned his attention to the Cook Strait settlements, where the position for the last year had verged upon war.”
Articles
The boulder and the bugler: The Battle of Boulcott’s Farm in public memory
The story of the Boulcott’s Farm battle has been told in poetry and prose; in print, on stage screen; and in memorials and museums.
Articles
The dispatch carrier
A story from the period of the Wellington conflict.
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on this topic on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand Geographic, Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (Plus), New Zealand History Collection (BWB). School login may be ...
Videos
The New Zealand Hutt Valley Campaign 1846
A video for 3.2 NCEA history internal on the war in the Hutt Valley.
Articles
Whanganui 1847
The British Army were stationed in Whanganui to protect settler communities against Māori from the Upper Whanganui river.
Books
Early Wellington
An account of early Wellington featuring the circumstances that led up to the brief war and the ‘arrest’ of Te Rauparaha - chapters XI & XII.
Articles
Hero stories of New Zealand
The attack on Boulcott’s farm.
Newspapers
Boulcott’s farm
Letter to the editor in 1846 detailing the attack on Boulcott’s farm and Pakeha fatalities.
Articles
Young Allen, the brave bugler boy
An 1886 poem about the Private William Allen who died in the battle of Boulcott’s farm.
Newspapers
Fighting in Whanganui
An account of the fighting in Whanganui between troops and Upper Whanganui river Māori.
Videos
The Governor - The reverend traitor
TV drama The Governor examined the life of Governor George Grey in six thematic parts. In the first episode Grey arrives to colonial troubles including the rebellious Te Rauparaha.
Images
St John's Wood, Whanganui, 1847
Fighting at St John's Wood, Whanganui, 1847
Images
Skirmish at St John’s Wood, Whanganui
An inconclusive skirmish took place on 20 July 1847 at the climax of a month-long blockade which had confined settlers within the narrow limits of Wanganui township.
Books
The war at Wanganui
The first settlers under the New Zealand Company took up their Wanganui land in 1841, but Māori. very soon disputed their title to many of the sections, declaring that they had never sold the land.
Articles
The shadow of war
A Pakeha account of the Wellington War by Elsdon Best.
Images
An account of the attack of the Rebel Natives at the (Hutt Valley) Camp, May 1846
In the early hours of 16 May, 1846, shots were fired at Almon Boulcott’s farm in Wellington’s Hutt Valley. Ngāti Hauā-te-rangi fighters of Whanganui, led by Te Mamaku had attacked British soldiers ...
Audio
Hohepa
Hōhepa originates from the request by Matiu Mareikura (Ngati Rangi) to Jenny McLeod to write the story of Hōhepa Te Umuroa.
Newspapers
Official despatches
Official despatch by Major Edward Last covering the fight at Battle Hill and the subsequent capture of Māori prisoners.
Articles
Hohepa Te Umuroa
Te Umuroa with other Wanganui Māori travelled to Te Rangihaeata's pa at Taupo, Porirua. In May 1846 he took part in the attack on Boulcott's farm in the Hutt Valley.
Videos
The end of the war in Wellington
The end of the war in Wellington
In the television series The New Zealand Wars, James Belich explains why Ngāti Toa leader Te Rangihaeata and his men abandoned their pā at Pāuatahanui and retreated into the hills. The last major a...
Images
Rutland stockade, Whanganui
Rutland stockade, Whanganui
This drawing was made from a rough sketch drawn on 20 July 1847, when British troops moved down from the Rutland stockade, on top of the hill with the flag, and engaged upriver Māori led by Tōpine ...
Images
Artist unknown :(Pukenamu) Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, New Zealand [1847]
Artist unknown :(Pukenamu) Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, New Zealand [1847]
Plan view of Rutland Stockade (with north at the top), showing site for upper blockhouse on left, main gate to the south in the cente, 'officers' gate' to the right, cook house, guard house and oth...
Stories
War in the Waikato ( 1863 - 1865)
War in the Waikato ( 1863 - 1865)
A series of images, articles, videos on the Waikato War fought between 1863 and 1864.
Images
Boulcott's Farm NZ Wars memorial
Boulcott's Farm NZ Wars memorial
Boulcott's Farm memorial in Lower Hutt, near Wellington.
Images
Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
This memorial stands in the Te Puni Street urupā burial ground in Petone. It commemorates prominent Te Ātiawa leader Honiana Te Puni's 'unbroken friendship' with Pākehā.
Articles
Eight killed in attack on Boulcott Farm
Disagreements over the validity of land purchases by the New Zealand Company led to a series of skirmishes between Māori and government troops in the Wellington region in 1846.
Images
Painting of Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley
Painting of Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley
1846 painting showing Boulcott's stockade in Hutt Valley.
Articles
War in Wellington - War in Wellington
In 1846 fighting broke out in the Wellington region when Ngāti Toa chief Te Rangihaeata backed local Maori opposed to European settlement in Hutt Valley. The campaign claimed few lives but effectiv...
Images
The fight at Battle Hill
The fight at Battle Hill
This 1846 painting shows troops advancing up Battle Hill to attack Te Rangihaeata's men.
Images
From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku
From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer, in the Municipal Art Gallery, Auckland] — Topine te Mamaku
The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I: 1845–1864 - Chapter 14: The War at Wanganui - From an oil-painting by G. Lindauer , in the Municipal Art ...
Images
Topine Te Mamaku
Topine Te Mamaku
Photograph of Topine Te Mamaku seated on the ground in front of a tent wrapped in a blanket, taken in May 1885 at Tawhata by Alfred Burton Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom l...
Newspapers
WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 31 July 1847)
Newspapers
WANGANUI. (Wellington Independent, 04 August 1847)
Images
Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha
Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha was teina (junior) to his half-brother, Nohorua, yet due to his leadership abilities he commanded his people.
Images
Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha
In this 1840s image of Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha, he wears a feather in his hair and a pōhoi (feather-ball earring). Te Rauparaha is famous for the role he played during the musket wars. His br...
Images
Te Rauparaha sketch
Te Rauparaha
Te Rauparaha‘s arrest was a controversial move by Governor George Grey. After the attack on Boucoult’s farm, Grey saw Te Rauparaha as a cause of rising tensions over occupation and ownership of whe...
Images
Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial
Battle Hill NZ Wars memorial
This tombstone marks the grave of two British men who were killed in action on Battle Hill in August 1846.
Images
Wanganui. New Zealand. October 1847
Wanganui. New Zealand. October 1847
Margin below image in ink: Wanganui. N.Z. Oct.r 1847; on mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Wanganui 1847 showing stockades and settlers houses some of which were fortified. T.M.H.; label in ink in ...
Images
"Miss Gilfillan, Severely wounded by rebel Natives Apl. 1847"
"Miss Gilfillan, Severely wounded by rebel Natives Apl. 1847"
Copy photograph of a studio portrait of Miss Mary Gilfillan, who was badly injured in the Gilfillan massacre on 18 April 1847 at Matarawa, near Whanganui. Mary Gilfillan is seated at a table and r...
Images
Wanganui N. Zealand.
Wanganui N. Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Wanganui N. Zealand W. Fox 1857; on sketchbook mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: English Church and houses on site of the Avenue. Beyond are two large houses built an...
Articles
War in Whanganui - War in Whanganui
The confusion and uncertainty that had surrounded the New Zealand Company's land purchases in Whanganui erupted into violence in the autumn and winter of 1847. The conflict also involved long-stand...
Images
Whanganui in 1841
Whanganui in 1841
The new settlement of Petre or Whanganui (also known as Wanganui) in September 1841.
Images
Photographer unknown: Memorial to New Zealand Wars in the Hutt Valley
Photographer unknown: Memorial to New Zealand Wars in the Hutt Valley
Stone memorial to the men who fell at Boulcott's Stockade in the Hutt Valley during the New Zealand Wars. Photographer unknown. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film n...
Images
McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943 :A boy's heroism. 'Awake! Awake!' [1908]
Bugler’s gallantry
This headline refers to the story of a young soldier, William Allen, who blew his bugle to warn his comrades but was cut down during an attack on Boulcott’s farm in 1846. Over the years the story ...
Images
The Taita Stockade, 1846.
The Taita Stockade, 1846.
(Redrawn from the orinigal sketch by W. Swainson, F.R.S.)
Images
[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Stockade in clearing, Taita] 17 Oct. 184[6 or 1847?]
[Swainson, William] 1789-1855 :[Stockade in clearing, Taita] 17 Oct. 184[6 or 1847?]
A small fenced stockade in a clearing, surrounded by large tree trunks. There are two buildings inside the stockade's fencing, both small. According to Elsdon Best - "Stake stockade at Taita near...
Research papers
The Taita Post, Volume 53, 1921, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1921
The Taita Post, Volume 53, 1921, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1921
As this place is always called “Taitai,” which, according to Mr. Buck, a surveyor, of Hutt, is its correct name, our early settlers must have formed their own ideas of how it should be spelt. The n...
Other
Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy
Portrait of Hōniana Te Puni-kōkopu, by Charles Heaphy
Images
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Te Puni seated in a whare in Pito-one Pa] N. Z. 1860
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Te Puni seated in a whare in Pito-one Pa] N. Z. 1860
Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the fa...
Archives
Te Wharepōuri
Other
Te Wharepōuri
Te Wharepōuri
Other
Te Wharepōuri, Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi
Te Wharepōuri, Te Kakapi-o-te-rangi
Images
The fight at Battle Hill, Horokiwi
58th and 99th Regiments advancing up Battle Hill
It was short-lived but also a cold and wet winter campaign that saw British forces track Te Rangihaeata and his taua up the Horokiwi valley north of Wellington in August 1846. Eventually they came...
Images
Rutland Stockade, Whanganui
Rutland Stockade, Whanganui
Photograph taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.25 x 3.25 inches
Images
Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui
Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui
Rutland stockade and jail, Wanganui, circa 1870s. Photograph taken by William James Harding. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative
Images
Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa
Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa
Grave of Hohepa Te Umuroa, possibly on Maria Island, Tasmania, Australia, photographed between ca 1914-ca 1960. Caption on reverse of print reads: "Grave of one of the N Z Chiefs transported to V.D...
Images
Group of mourners at the grave of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, Wellington
Honiana Te Puni
Honiana Te Puni’s (Te Ati Awa) gravestone pictured here in 1940 records the enormous gratitude and reverence Pakeha had for his support during the early settlement of Wellington and the subsequent ...
Articles
Ngāti Toarangatira
The Ngāti Toarangatira people, originally from Kāwhia, have survived changing fortunes.
Images
Battle Hill Farm Reserve
On 6 August, 1846, government forces began their assault on Te Rangihaeata’s position at Horokiwi.
Articles
History of Te Ātiawa
Te Ātiawa stem from Toi-te-huatahi or Toi-kai-rakau, the wood eater.
Articles
Governor George Grey
George Grey is believed to have been born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1812.
Articles
Te Puni-kokopu
Honiana, as he was known in his youth, belonged to Ngati Te Whiti and Ngati Tawhirikura hapu of Te Ati Awa.
Articles
Wellington battles, 1846
A map showing the locations of armed encounters in the Wellington area in 1846.
Articles
The fight at Battle Hill
The attack on Te Rangihaeata’s position at Battle Hill began on 6 August 1846 in freezing rain.
Articles
Wellington and Whanganui wars, 1846–1848
From the time that British settlers arrived in the Wellington area in 1839, land disputes had caused friction between Māori and European.
Articles
Wellington/Hutt Valley 1846
In 1846, Governor George Grey ordered the British Army to Wellington.
Books
Wellington settlement and war in the Hutt
“Governor Grey turned his attention to the Cook Strait settlements, where the position for the last year had verged upon war.”
Articles
The boulder and the bugler: The Battle of Boulcott’s Farm in public memory
The story of the Boulcott’s Farm battle has been told in poetry and prose; in print, on stage screen; and in memorials and museums.
Articles
The dispatch carrier
A story from the period of the Wellington conflict.
Websites
WWW
EPIC
Find more information on this topic on EPIC. Databases recommended: New Zealand Geographic, Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (Plus), New Zealand History Collection (BWB). School login may be ...
Videos
The New Zealand Hutt Valley Campaign 1846
A video for 3.2 NCEA history internal on the war in the Hutt Valley.
Articles
Whanganui 1847
The British Army were stationed in Whanganui to protect settler communities against Māori from the Upper Whanganui river.
Books
Early Wellington
An account of early Wellington featuring the circumstances that led up to the brief war and the ‘arrest’ of Te Rauparaha - chapters XI & XII.
Articles
Hero stories of New Zealand
The attack on Boulcott’s farm.
Newspapers
Boulcott’s farm
Letter to the editor in 1846 detailing the attack on Boulcott’s farm and Pakeha fatalities.
Articles
Young Allen, the brave bugler boy
An 1886 poem about the Private William Allen who died in the battle of Boulcott’s farm.
Newspapers
Fighting in Whanganui
An account of the fighting in Whanganui between troops and Upper Whanganui river Māori.
Videos
The Governor - The reverend traitor
TV drama The Governor examined the life of Governor George Grey in six thematic parts. In the first episode Grey arrives to colonial troubles including the rebellious Te Rauparaha.
Images
St John's Wood, Whanganui, 1847
Fighting at St John's Wood, Whanganui, 1847
Images
Skirmish at St John’s Wood, Whanganui
An inconclusive skirmish took place on 20 July 1847 at the climax of a month-long blockade which had confined settlers within the narrow limits of Wanganui township.
Books
The war at Wanganui
The first settlers under the New Zealand Company took up their Wanganui land in 1841, but Māori. very soon disputed their title to many of the sections, declaring that they had never sold the land.
Articles
The shadow of war
A Pakeha account of the Wellington War by Elsdon Best.
Images
An account of the attack of the Rebel Natives at the (Hutt Valley) Camp, May 1846
In the early hours of 16 May, 1846, shots were fired at Almon Boulcott’s farm in Wellington’s Hutt Valley. Ngāti Hauā-te-rangi fighters of Whanganui, led by Te Mamaku had attacked British soldiers ...
Audio
Hohepa
Hōhepa originates from the request by Matiu Mareikura (Ngati Rangi) to Jenny McLeod to write the story of Hōhepa Te Umuroa.
Newspapers
Official despatches
Official despatch by Major Edward Last covering the fight at Battle Hill and the subsequent capture of Māori prisoners.
Articles
Hohepa Te Umuroa
Te Umuroa with other Wanganui Māori travelled to Te Rangihaeata's pa at Taupo, Porirua. In May 1846 he took part in the attack on Boulcott's farm in the Hutt Valley.
Videos
The end of the war in Wellington
The end of the war in Wellington
In the television series The New Zealand Wars, James Belich explains why Ngāti Toa leader Te Rangihaeata and his men abandoned their pā at Pāuatahanui and retreated into the hills. The last major a...
Images
Rutland stockade, Whanganui
Rutland stockade, Whanganui
This drawing was made from a rough sketch drawn on 20 July 1847, when British troops moved down from the Rutland stockade, on top of the hill with the flag, and engaged upriver Māori led by Tōpine ...
Images
Artist unknown :(Pukenamu) Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, New Zealand [1847]
Artist unknown :(Pukenamu) Rutland Stockade, Wanganui, New Zealand [1847]
Plan view of Rutland Stockade (with north at the top), showing site for upper blockhouse on left, main gate to the south in the cente, 'officers' gate' to the right, cook house, guard house and oth...
Stories
War in the Waikato ( 1863 - 1865)
War in the Waikato ( 1863 - 1865)
A series of images, articles, videos on the Waikato War fought between 1863 and 1864.
Images
Boulcott's Farm NZ Wars memorial
Boulcott's Farm NZ Wars memorial
Boulcott's Farm memorial in Lower Hutt, near Wellington.
Images
Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
Honiana Te Puni NZ Wars memorial
This memorial stands in the Te Puni Street urupā burial ground in Petone. It commemorates prominent Te Ātiawa leader Honiana Te Puni's 'unbroken friendship' with Pākehā.
Articles
Eight killed in attack on Boulcott Farm
Disagreements over the validity of land purchases by the New Zealand Company led to a series of skirmishes between Māori and government troops in the Wellington region in 1846.

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