1864: The Storming of Gate Pa
September 30, 2018
By AHNZ
The Storming of Gate Pa, April 1864
Very enjoyable presentation from daffy English historian, Nikolas Lloyd.
It’s refreshing to hear New Zealand history without any politically correct baggage, though he does stop short of calling the natives ‘savages’. But he does call them Maoris, a term that was cut from our local narrative recently after long use.
Listen to the bit about bombardment on the wrong position. I’d like to think the Maoris set up their ‘target’ intelligently and deliberately as an illusion to fool the artillerymen. This has not been suggested, but what if it were true? That would be genius.
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Anarchist History of New Zealand: Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.- Oswald Spengler
