6-745: (Redirected from Taranaki War ) The Taranaki wars were a series of conflicts in New Zealand's Taranaki Province in the 1860s which form a major part of the New Zealand Wars : The First Taranaki War (1860–1861), also known as the North Taranaki War The Second Taranaki War (1864–1866) Tītokowaru's War (1868–1869), which also took place in Taranaki See also [ edit ] New Zealand Wars Topics referred to by
12-500: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Taranaki Province The Taranaki Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Initially known as New Plymouth Province , the province was renamed on 1 January 1859 as the Taranaki Province. With an area of some 2,000,000 acres (8,100 km ), New Plymouth Province
18-553: The Waikato region threatened these Ngāti Awa , and during the 1820s, many of the inhabitants left Taranaki. In 1832, Waikato iwi launched an assault with firearms, resulting in the remaining Ngāti Awa being killed or going into slavery apart from the Otaku pā in New Plymouth. When English emigrants arrived in 1841, they found deserted land. The settlement of the province was organised by
24-539: The Plymouth Company, a subsidiary of the New Zealand Company which was later absorbed into its parent company. Taranaki was chosen for the settlement by the surveyor Frederic Carrington , and New Plymouth was the only town founded in the country founded through organised settlement that lacked a natural harbour. Carrington argued that fertile land and natural harbours don't come together in New Zealand, and that
30-444: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Taranaki wars . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taranaki_wars&oldid=1188979266 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Taranaki wars Hidden categories: Short description
36-465: Was the smallest of the initial six provinces, and it was also the least populous. European settlement started in New Plymouth in 1841, which was the province's capital. For the first 30 years, European settlement did not extend many miles beyond New Plymouth. At the beginning of the 19th century, a coastal fringe some 2 to 4 miles (3.2 to 6.4 km) deep was densely populated with Māori . Iwi from
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