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Title: The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, 1864–72

Author: James Cowan, F.R.G.S.

Publication details: R. E. Owen, 1956, Wellington

Part of: New Zealand Wars (1845–1872)

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The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)

From a sketch by an eye-witness, 1865] — The Attack on Omaru-hakeke Pa, Upper Wairoa (Christmas Day, 1865)

From a sketch by an eye-witness, 1865] The Attack on Omaru-hakeke Pa, Upper Wairoa (Christmas Day, 1865)

From a sketch by an eye-witness, 1865]
The Attack on Omaru-hakeke Pa, Upper Wairoa (Christmas Day, 1865)

Major Fraser's and Captain Hussey's men are shown in the front. Captain Biggs's detachment was on the higher ground to the left (the Maoris' right flank), and fired on the escaping Hauhaus when Fraser's force assaulted the stockade.