Wednesday, 8 June 2016

The Sacking of Kororareka

The Sacking of Kororareka
Ngapuhi had pleasure many economics payments from early contact with Europeans. Key Leader such as Tamaki Waka nene and Hone Heke were interested to have preserved the connected. Both and other belief to Christianity courage the Treaty of Waitangi. Heke was the first to sign and invited Lieutenant-Governor Hobson to comment the connected with the British Crown and provide the greater economics success for Ngapuhi.

When the flagstaff was rebuilding after the third attack on 18th January 1845, FitzRoy had it clad in a tool and guide by a blockhouse. Nene also condition guards for the flagstaff (although his men didn’t force oppose the final assault on the flagstaff in March.) As straining mounted Kororareka was placed on a war footing. FitzRoy showing for military Aid of ships of the 6th Regiment and the boat HMS Hazard, which had been sent from New South Wales after the first incident in July 1844, were planning to return to Kororareka. In addition to Nene’s guard, 140 soldiers, sailors, and marines were available to protect the town. A further 200 resident inhabitant of the town band crew of visiting ships were armed. Shortly before dawn on 11 March 18845, Heke and about 450 warriors moved on Kororareka . One group, led by Te Ruki Kawiti, created a diversion at the Southern end of the town, enabling Heke to uphold the blockhouse against the flagstaff . The offer the pole was cut down for the fourth and final time.

Rather aimless fighting the mark the rest the morning. In the early afternoon, the powder magazine at Polack’s Stockade exploded. Enclose buildings go fire the main person of Kororareka were removed to ships anchored in the bay and carry to Auckland the following day.   
  
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This 1908 action drawing the book at Kororāreka (later Russell) in the Bay of Islands in 1845. Hōne Heke was the first of 45 strongest northern chiefs to sign the Treaty at Waitangi. He later grows sad at the fact of services  with European ships, and at challenges to his power. From late 1844 he and his men over and over again cut down the flagpole above the bay at Kororāreka. In March 1845 he cut it down again, and fighting broke out at Kororāreka, then spread throughout middle Northland.


Wearing traditional above all costume, Northern Māori group of Parliament Taurekareka Hēnare vehicle the governor-general, Lord Bledisloe (in top hat), and his wife (in fur stole) onto the land where the Treaty of Waitangi had been signed 94 years earlier. Lord Bledisloe had raised  this land and the house of British local and inhabitant James Busby to the nation in 1932. Large public remembrance of the treaty signing began in the years after this gift.

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