One of the recurring themes from the historiography of the New Zealand Wars is that a conflict between the world’s leading imperial power and a divided, tribally-based society could only have had one outcome; and that the best the Maori could have hoped to achieve in such a conflict was to limit the scale or consequences of their eventual defeat.
This examination of the development of British and Maori strategy during the Hutt, Whanganui and Taranaki Wars will provide an alternative perspective.
Presenter: Lt Col Richard Taylor
Entry by $3.00 donation to the Royal Engineer Charitable Trust.
