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waikato war
The war and confiscation of land caused heavy economic, social and cultural damage to Waikato-Tainui. After fighting broke out again in Taranaki in early 1863, Governor George Grey turned his attention to the region he saw as the root of his problems with Māori: Waikato, the heartland of the anti-land selling King Movement. -
northern war
The Northern War was the first serious challenge to the Crown in the years after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.Its opening shots marked the beginning of the wider North Island conflict that are often referred to as the New Zealand Wars.The Nz wars began with fighting between Ngāpuhi and government troops at Kororāreka in the Bay of Islands.The major causes were the concern of some Ngāpuhi that the moving of the capital from the Bay to Auckland.