New book: "Gate Pa and Te Ranga; the Full Story"
PRESS RELEASE New book: "Gate Pa and Te Ranga; the Full Story"
A new book, "Gate Pa and Te Ranga; the Full
Story" by John McLean and John Robinson has been launched
to-day by Tross Publishing. It is the first book to be
written specifically about these important battles of the
New Zealand wars of the 1860s since Gilbert Mair's book,
"The Story of Gate Pa" in the 1920s.
The new book describes how Ngaiterangi came to the Tauranga region, the alliances it made during the Musket Wars and how those alliances influenced its decision to take up arms against the Crown during the Kingite rebellion.
Meticulously
researched and based on eye-witness accounts at the time,
the book traces the battles of the Maketu campaign, Gate Pa
and Te Ranga, after which Ngaiterangi and its allies
surrendered to the Crown and agreed to accept the law of the
land. Since then peace has reigned in the Bay of Plenty and
the authors point out that this is the real victory of those
far-off battles in 1864.
169 pages of text, plus 16 pages
of maps/photos. Price:
$30