Название: Osprey Men at Arms 487 - The New Zealand Wars 1820-72
Автор: Ian Knight
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 1780962770
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 48
Размер: 17,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.
The small early British coastal settlements were tolerated, and in the 1820s a chief named Hongi Hika travelled to Britain with a missionary and returned laden with gifts. He promptly exchanged these for muskets, and began an aggressive 15-year expansion.