Osprey Men at Arms 487 - The New Zealand Wars 1820-72
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Название: Osprey Men at Arms 487 - The New Zealand Wars 1820-72
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Автор: Ian Knight
Год выпуска: 2013
Формат: PDF, EPUB
Размер: 17,0 МБ
ISBN: 293969172285
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Osprey Men at Arms 487 - The New Zealand Wars 1820-72 БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers.The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups maintained fortified villages or pas.
The small early British coastal settlements were tolerated, and in the 1820s a chief named Hongi Hika travelled to Britain with a missionary and returned laden with gifts. He promptly exchanged these for muskets, and began an aggressive 15-year expansion.
y the 1860s many Maori had acquired firearms and had perfected their bush-warfare tactics.