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The Battle of Gate Pā is probably the battle which made the greatest impact in the history of the New Zealand Wars. In an effort to cut off reinforcements and food supplies which were filtering through to the Māori rebels in the Waikato area, the British sent their troops to Tauranga, where Gate Pā was situated, in order to attack the fortress.
Around 200 warriors from the Ngai-te-Rangi tribe were in place one side of the pā and around 35 warriors, mainly from the Ngati Koheriki tribe, reinforced the other side. The chief, Rawiri Puhirake was in charge.
On the 29th April 1862, the 43rd British regiment attacked the Pā. 1,700 soldiers were armed with Armstrong artillery; 8 mortars, 2 howitzers, 2 naval canon and 5 Armstrong guns. The Armstrong gun was a relatively new weapon, having been invested in 1854. The British troops knew by this time that an extremely well fortified Pā, even manned by armed Maori warriors who were numerically inferior in number, was not a future battle to be taken lightly.
General Cameron was in charge of the Imperial troops. The soldiers opened fire on Gate Pā, and during a short time bombarded it heavily. The following day the troops bombarded again, for a longer period, and this time succeeded in breaking opening a large point of entry to the pā. Cameron then sent an elite assault force to penetrate the breach opened up during the bombardment.
The assault force was made up of the 43rd Regiment and a naval brigade, an approximate total of 300 men. The part advanced succeeded in entering the pā, but within ten minutes were forced to rapidly withdraw, leaving around 100 dead and wounded soldiers inside the pā.
The British had thought their previous heavy bombardment has taken effect, owing to the fact that there has been little response fire from within the pā. However, on entering via the breach, the British troops found themselves being fired on at very close range from Māori in hiding.
Source: http://history-nz.org/wars4.html
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| Address : | Gate Pa School 900 Cameron Road, Gate Pa, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand |
| Phone : | 📞 +778 |
| Postal code : | 3112 |
| Website : | http://www.gatepa.school.nz/ |
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