The New Zealand Wars 1820-72, Book 487 (Men-at-Arms) by Ian Knight
English | March 20th, 2013 | ISBN: 1780962770 | 48 pages | EPUB | 11.17 MB
Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups maintained fortified villages or pas.