New Zealand Wars

The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. Though the wars were initially localised conflicts triggered by tensions over disputed land purchases, they escalated dramatically from 1860 as the government became convinced it was facing united Māori resistance to further land sales and a refusal to acknowledge Crown sovereignty. The colonial government summoned thousands of British troops to mount major campaigns to overpower the Kīngitanga movement and also conquest of farming and residential land for British settlers. Later campaigns were aimed at quashing the Pai Mārire religious and political movement, which was strongly opposed to the conquest of Māori land and eager to strengthen Māori identity. Māori religious movements that promoted pan-Māori identity played a major role in the Wars.

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1845 — 1872  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Land Wars; Māori Wars
Māori, British Empire, war, 

HMS Harrier, HMS Sparrow, 

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1845 — 1872 New Zealand Wars

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1843 Wairau Affray

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1807 — 1842 Musket Wars

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1865 — 1866 East Cape War

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Full length studio portrait of Lieutenant Simon Bagge Triphook, 12th Regiment. Te Papa.

Promissory note (AM 2007.18.3-2)

Trousers (AM 1973.14-1)

Captain Sir W. Onslow and Lieutenant Ward, 12th Regiment, British Army, circa 1868, maker unknown. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (O.011926)

Tunic (AM 1934.205-8)

Lieutenant Joseph Boulton, 12th Regiment of Foot

A Noble Deed, photograph of a undated lithograph published by Wilson & Horton

Portraits from the New Zealand Wars, circa 1895, New Zealand, by William Francis Gordon. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (C.000354)

Tunic (AM 1934.205-7)

Sergeant John Murray, cropped from Group of Non Coms, & Privates 68th Regt. Taken at Portsmouth - Hickson, Keogh, Bedson, Wade, Murray V.C., 1866, circa 1900, New Plymouth, copied by William Francis Gordon. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (O.011909)

• Violent Trajectories: A Cultural History of the Enfield Rifle in the British Empire - 2017 master's thesis by Daniel M. Thompson at Victoria University of Wellington, Q1860
• Ngā reo o ngā niupepa: Māori language newspapers 1855-1863 - 2004 doctoral thesis by Lachlan Paterson at University of Otago, online
• The Lost, Erased, Unseen and Forgotten: Translating into Architecture the New Zealand Wars - 2012 master's thesis by Geordie Shaw at Victoria University of Wellington, Q1860
• British Army and Colonial Fortifications in North Taranaki, 1863–64 - 1996 article, Q1860, online
• Ngā ti Porou leadership : Rā pata Wahawaha and the politics of conflict : "Kei te ora nei hoki tā tou, me tō tā tou whenua" - 2000 doctoral thesis by Monty Soutar at Massey University
• The first Taranaki war : a divergent history - 2013 master's thesis by Murray Robert Hill at Massey University, Q1860
• The New Zealand Wars / Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa - book by Vincent O'Malley, 2019
• The Gilfillan killings : narrative, marginality and the strangeness of the colonial past - 2003 master's thesis by Greg Loveridge at Massey University, Q1860
• Military intelligence in the New Zealand wars, 1845-1864 - 2012 doctoral thesis by Clifford Roy Simons at Massey University, Q1860
• Landscapes of Conflict: A Field Guide to the New Zealand Wars - 2002 book, English
• Unsettling the Colony: Gender, fear and settler colonialism during the evacuation of 'refugee' settler women from Land Wars conflicts at Taranaki (1860-1861) and Poverty Bay (1865, 1868) - 2018 master's thesis by Jamie Hawkins Elder at Victoria University of Wellington, Q1860
• “On and On It Goes”: Representations of the New Zealand Wars in novels, film, and theatre - 2019 doctoral thesis by Brendan Daniel Sheridan at University of Waikato, Q1860, online

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
area	region	1841	New Zealand	sovereign state, Commonwealth realm, island country, country, tripadvisor	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1843	Wairau Affray	Arthur Wakefield, armed conflict, Te Rauparaha, Te Rangihaeata, John Wallis Barnicoat, John Sylvanus Cottrell, Eugene Bellairs	Wikidata
event	war	1807	Musket Wars	war, Māori	Wikidata
event	war	1845	New Zealand Wars	war, British Empire, Māori	Wikidata
event	war	1865	East Cape War	war	Wikidata
site	shipwreck	1889	HMS Sparrow	shipwreck, gunboat, Redbreast-class gunboat	Wikidata
commons	image		Full length studio portrait of Lieutenant Simon Bagge Triphook, 12th Regiment. Te Papa.		Commons
commons	image		Promissory note (AM 2007.18.3-2)		Commons
commons	image		Trousers (AM 1973.14-1)		Commons
commons	image		Captain Sir W. Onslow and Lieutenant Ward, 12th Regiment, British Army, circa 1868, maker unknown. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (O.011926)		Commons
commons	image		Tunic (AM 1934.205-8)		Commons
commons	image		Lieutenant Joseph Boulton, 12th Regiment of Foot		Commons
commons	image		A Noble Deed, photograph of a undated lithograph published by Wilson & Horton		Commons
commons	image		Portraits from the New Zealand Wars, circa 1895, New Zealand, by William Francis Gordon. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (C.000354)		Commons
commons	image		Tunic (AM 1934.205-7)		Commons
commons	image		Sergeant John Murray, cropped from Group of Non Coms, & Privates 68th Regt. Taken at Portsmouth - Hickson, Keogh, Bedson, Wade, Murray V.C., 1866, circa 1900, New Plymouth, copied by William Francis Gordon. Purchased 1916. Te Papa (O.011909)		Commons