Significant1863 – 1866 · 3 years

Second Taranaki War

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Taranaki · New Zealand

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

A period of hostilities in the Taranaki district from 1863 to 1866 driven by Māori resentment over the Waitara land dispute, large-scale land confiscation, and the rise of the Pai Mārire (Hauhau) movement. It involved sustained bush-clearing campaigns and Māori guerrilla resistance.

Belligerents2

Taranaki Māori and Pai Mārire (Hauhau)
New Zealand Government and colonial forces

Conflict graph

PART OFNew Zealand Land Wars

Sources

Wikipedia: Second Taranaki War
NZ History (Manatū Taonga): The second Taranaki war
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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