Gate Pa or Gate Pā is a suburb of Tauranga, in the Bay of Plenty Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is the location of the Battle of Gate Pā in the 1864 Tauranga campaign of the New …

Gate Pā, based on a sketch by Lieutenant Horatio Gordon Robley. Still hoping to provoke an attack, the 250 Ngāi Te Rangi fighters at Pukehinahina enlarged the existing trench and banks …

Gate Pā was a major disaster for the British military. Some branded the assault party as cowards. The New Zealander described how men ‘ran away howling’. Both the 43rd Regiment and the …

The Battle of Gate Pā (Pukehinahina), fought near Tauranga on 29 April 1864, was notable for the ferocity of the fighting, the repulse of the British forces, and an act of chivalry by one of the …

The resulting Battle of Pukehinahina (Gate Pā) took place on 29 April 1864. It is particularly notable because, despite being hugely outnumbered, Māori forces were victorious due to their …

Gate Pā was a major disaster for the British military, who suffered twice the casualties of the Māori. Unlike at Gate Pā, where the British assault was concentrated on two points, at Te …

The humanity of the Māori defenders at Gate Pā is what makes that battle stand out from every other colonial conflict in this country. It was something that truly captured the Victorian …

May 8, 2020 · It focuses on the area in which the Battle of Pukehinahina (Gate Pa) took place. St George’s Anglican Church, which opened in 1900, can be seen in the lower right of this image. …

Conflict in the Tauranga district between the Imperial troops and Māori warriors became almost inevitable when in January 1864 three ships landed almost 700 soldiers at the tiny settlement …

After the battle of Gate Pa there was much controversy about the defeat of the elite Imperial troops, heavily armed and far superior in number to the Māori. The Māori warrior was a …