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len.george (63)in #votes • 5 years ago
how about a "how to do it" run through
For a while, I have sat back and let those who appeared to know what they were doing run the ship. I imagine that there are quite a few small fishes like me out here in the big…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 3
British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While working as a war correspondent for the Daily Southern Cross…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 2
On his news-hunting rides from Drury to the military posts in the district in the winter of 1863, Von Tempsky frequently called at a solitary house on the edge of the bush…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Von Tempsky, One Of The British Soldiers During The Taranaki War, 1860s to 1858. Part 1
Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was born at Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, on 15 February 1828. Image Source He was the younger son of Julius Louis von Tempsky…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #37
Kimble [Kimball] Bent Image Source From Hukatere the pakeha-Maori and his girl wife went to Taiporohenui, Bent's old home in the war days. There he lived for a year or…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #36
A story related by Bent is illustrative of the Maori belief, up to quite modern days, in malignant beings which made their homes in lonely waters and in caves, the dreaded…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #35
More than one outlaw from the white country outside took refuge in the Taranaki bush even in those post-bellum days. One of these was Hiroki, the Maori who killed McLean.…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #34
Kimble Bent lived in this securely hidden place of refuge, and at Paihau village, nearby, from the end of 1869 until about 1876. He was now a Maori in all his ways, he planted…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #33
The Hauhau war-chief's mana-tapu [Glory] was gone, and there was nothing for it but to fly to the depths of the wilderness. He and his men gathered in a few days at Rimatoto…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #32
The Wanganui Kupapas were fully as savage as any wild rebel. No quarter was given to any Hauhau warrior, and no Hauhau thought of asking for any mercy. Of one frightful…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #31
Two of our men that we have been following, young Tutange and the warrior Katene Tu-Whakaruru, who were out scouting on horseback, discovered the troops lying in ambush just…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #30
Now came an illustration of that many-sided law, the tapu. Titokowaru took the two eels which Bent had carried home on his back and hung them up as an offering to the atua, the…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #29
“After we deserted Tauranga-ika,” said the old pakeha-Maori, “we led a miserably rough life in the bush. We were as near starvation sometimes as we could well be. Kepa's…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #28
It was fortunate that this Hauhau ambuscade had been unmasked. The camp was already astir, and the troops were having their early morning coffee, and in another half-hour would…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #27
An incident of Hauhau life at this period, illustrative of the pitilessly savage character of the olden Maori, was told thus by Kimble Bent. “While we were living in the pa…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #26
The most dreaded hour in Maori warfare was the dark, dank hour just before the dawn, and then it was well to be on the qui vive, for Kepa's [Major Kemp] Image Source…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #25
Some of the Maoris proposed that the bodies of the slain whites, the “Fish of Whiro,” should all be burned or buried. But up leapt Timoti, the wildest of all the wild Waitotara…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #24
The grim story of that hard-fought retreat through the bush was told by Kimble Bent. After the kokiri, [the rush out in pursuit], had been ordered by the Maori war-chief, one…
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len.george (63)in #history • 6 years ago
Kimble [Kimball] Bent An Unusual European Who Deserted The British Army And Joined The Hau Hau #23
Just within the stockade of the Moturoa, or Papatihakehake pa, [fortified village], there was a small, roughly built taumaihi, or look-out stage, ten or twelve feet above the…
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