• NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast

NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka

By: RNZ
  • Summary

  • Highlighting Northland's most infamous armed conflict.
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2024
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  • The Battle of Ruapekapeka
    Dec 1 2017
    As relations between Māori and Pākehā sour in the years after the Treaty of Waitangi, Hone Heke makes his famous attacks on the flagstaff at Kororāreka/Russell in 1845. This sparks the NZ Wars proper, with the fight for sovereignty, development of trench warfare and inconclusive battles that would mark the conflict as it spread across the motu.
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    48 mins

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