Resources

Websites for additional background information

This first one is a video clip from 'The New Zealand Wars by James Belich

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/36925/the-attack-on-gate-pa

This is the site for the children's picture book 'Battle at the Gate' (Penguin 2008)

https://sites.google.com/site/battleatthegate/

General History Sites

An excellent summary of the battle:

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/war-in-tauranga/gate-pa

Chief Hori Ngatai's personal account of the battle:

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-MaiStor-t1-body-d3.html

General Cameron's dispatch to Sir George Grey following the defeat:

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-MaiStor-t1-body-d5.html

Other sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_Campaign

http://www.ranginui.co.nz/vdb/document/87

http://teaohou.natlib.govt.nz/journals/teaohou/issue/Mao76TeA/c14.html

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2585325/gate-pa-battle-diarama