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On the 3rd March 1845 word reached the town that Kawiti was plundering a homestead in a bay close by . H.M.S. Hazard , which was lying in the port , was despatched , and a shore party landed under the acting commander , Lieutenant ...
On the 3rd March 1845 word reached the town that Kawiti was plundering a homestead in a bay close by . H.M.S. Hazard , which was lying in the port , was despatched , and a shore party landed under the acting commander , Lieutenant ...
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It was a long straggling town built along a beach . The land behind is flat for a short distance inland and then rises into a low ridge of hills which surround the bay . To the north is Flagstaff Hill , 300 feet high , and to the south ...
It was a long straggling town built along a beach . The land behind is flat for a short distance inland and then rises into a low ridge of hills which surround the bay . To the north is Flagstaff Hill , 300 feet high , and to the south ...
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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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