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Just as they reached their objective the sentry at the one - gun battery challenged and fired at a Maori whom he had ... The Maoris had heard from the missionaries and settlers of the formidable nature of the redcoats , and had formed ...
Just as they reached their objective the sentry at the one - gun battery challenged and fired at a Maori whom he had ... The Maoris had heard from the missionaries and settlers of the formidable nature of the redcoats , and had formed ...
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Meanwhile neither the Maoris nor the soldiers had been idle . Lieutenant Barclay turned out his detachment of the 96th Regiment , consisting of thirty men , as soon as he heard the firing , and they were soon hotly engaged in repelling ...
Meanwhile neither the Maoris nor the soldiers had been idle . Lieutenant Barclay turned out his detachment of the 96th Regiment , consisting of thirty men , as soon as he heard the firing , and they were soon hotly engaged in repelling ...
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of it Lieutenant Phillpotts ordered his guns to open fire , and a number of shots were fired without any other result than to make the Maoris so angry that they burned the town , sparing only the buildings of the English and Roman ...
of it Lieutenant Phillpotts ordered his guns to open fire , and a number of shots were fired without any other result than to make the Maoris so angry that they burned the town , sparing only the buildings of the English and Roman ...
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