The defection of a local girl to live with a colonial butcher led to the Hone Heke-led Flagstaff rebellion in this modern nation.
The defection of a local girl to live with a colonial butcher led to the Hone Heke-led Flagstaff rebellion in this modern nation. Hone Heke was dissatisfied with an agreement reached in 1840 and touched off a series of land conflicts that lasted almost 35 years. The locals were veterans of a series of earlier civil conflicts known as the musket wars and were able to endure the weight of the British onslaught, such as the bombardment at Gate Pa during the Tauranga Campaign. Ultimately the locals were unable to make the British honor the promises made to locals by William Hobson in Treaty of Waitangi. For 10 points-- what is southern hemisphere nation and home to the indigenous Maori people?
The defection of a local girl to live with a colonial butcher led to the Hone Heke-led Flagstaff rebellion in this modern nation.
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