The Old Frontier : Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley : the missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement
The Capture of the Entrenchment — This picture is a drawing, untitled, among the numerous war sketches left by — Major von Tempsky. Major Mair, to whom it was shown many years ago, said — he believed it represented the final scene at Orakau, April 2nd, 1864, when the — last few Maoris to abandon the pa encountered the bayonet
The Capture of the Entrenchment
This picture is a drawing, untitled, among the numerous war sketches left by
Major von Tempsky. Major Mair, to whom it was shown many years ago, said
he believed it represented the final scene at Orakau, April 2nd, 1864, when the
last few Maoris to abandon the pa encountered the bayonet.