Hutt Valley campaign

rdf:langString Hutt Valley campaign

rdf:langString Hutt Valley campaign

rdf:langString Māori allies * Rawiri Puaha

rdf:langString Royal Navy * HMS Castor * HMS Calliope * Royal Marines British Army * 58th Regiment * 65th Regiment * 99th Regiment Ordnance * Royal Artillery Militia * Hutt Company, Wellington Battalion Police

rdf:langString Ngāti Toa

rdf:langString : Colony of New Zealand

rdf:langString Ngāti Hāuaterangi

rdf:langString Ngāti Rangatahi

rdf:langString Edward Last

rdf:langString Rawiri Puaha

rdf:langString Te Rangihaeata

rdf:langString Topine Te Mamaku

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rdf:langString British victory

rdf:langString The Hutt Valley campaign was an armed conflict in the lower North Island of New Zealand between indigenous Māori and British settlers and military forces in 1846. The campaign was among the earliest of the 19th century New Zealand Wars that were fought over issues of land and sovereignty. It was preceded by the Wairau affray (June 1843) and followed by the Wanganui campaign (April–July 1847) and was triggered by much the same pressures—the careless land purchasing practices of the New Zealand Company, armed government support for settler land claims, and complex intertribal tensions between local Māori. The three conflicts also shared many of the same combatants. The campaign's most notable clashes were the Māori dawn raid on an imperial stockade at Boulcott's Farm in the Hutt Valley on 16 May 1846 in which eight British soldiers and at least two Māori died, and the Battle of Battle Hill from 6–13 August as British troops, local militia and kūpapa Māori pursued a Ngāti Toa force led by chief Te Rangihaeata through steep and dense bushland. Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha was taken into custody during the campaign; he was detained without charge in Auckland for two years. A 2003 report by the Waitangi Tribunal concluded the New Zealand Company's 1839 land purchases were invalid and that the Crown committed a number of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi in subsequent dealings with Māori in the area.