Regional1868 – 1872 · 4 years
Te Kooti's War
Poverty Bay · Urewera · Bay of Plenty · New Zealand
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
A guerrilla campaign waged from 1868 to 1872 by the prophet-leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki after escaping imprisonment on the Chatham Islands, including the 1868 Matawhero killings. Colonial and allied Māori forces pursued him for years before he escaped into the King Country.
Belligerents2
- Te Kooti's Ringatū followers
- New Zealand Government and kūpapa Māori
Conflict graph
PART OFNew Zealand Land Wars
Sources
- Wikipedia: Te Kooti's War
- Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand Wars
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Te Kooti's War (1868 – 1872). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/te-kooti-s-war · Sources & methodology