NZ Wars: The Stories of Ruapekapeka

Highlighting Northland's most infamous armed conflict.

Hosted by Shannon Haunui-Thompson

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The Battle of Ruapekapeka

Episode 1
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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