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New Zealand Wars

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New Zealand Wars

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Attack on Rangiriri, November 20th 1863

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New Zealand Wars Every Year

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New Zealand Wars - Battle of Gate PA 1864

The New Zealand Wars were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand government and the Māori. Until at least the 1980s, European New Zealanders referred to them as the Māori wars; the historian James Belich was one of the first to refer to them as the "New Zealand wars", in his 1987 book The New Zealand wars and the Victorian interpretation of racial conflict.