Whanganui campaign

Wanganui campaign
Part of the New Zealand Wars

View of Wanganui, 1847
Artist: John Alexander Gilfillan
Date16 April – 23 July 1847
Location
New Zealand
Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
 United Kingdom: Colony of New Zealand Māori
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland George Grey
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland William McCleverty
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Joseph Henry Laye
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland John Hoseason		 Topine Te Mamaku
Maketu †
Te Pehi Pakarao
Ngapara[1]: 129 
Units involved

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Navy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Army

Ordnance

HM Treasury

Armed Police
Māori allies

United Kingdom Taua

  • Ngāti Haua-te-rangi
  • Ngāti Patutokotoko
  • Ngāti Ruaka
Strength
188 sailors & marines
534 soldiers
1 engineer
22 artillerymen
50 warriors[2]: 42 
[non-primary source needed]		 600 warriors
Casualties and losses

19 May
0 killed
0 wounded[5]
[non-primary source needed]
19 July

4 killed[2]: 44 
[non-primary source needed]
11 wounded[6]
[non-primary source needed]

19 May
2 killed
≥10 wounded[5]
[non-primary source needed]
19 July

5 killed[2]: 44 
[non-primary source needed]
10–30 wounded[6]
[non-primary source needed][7]

The Whanganui campaign was a brief round of hostilities in the North Island of New Zealand as indigenous Māori fought British settlers and military forces in 1847. The campaign, which included a siege of the fledgling Whanganui settlement (then named "Petre"),[8] was among the earliest of the 19th century New Zealand Wars that were fought over issues of land and sovereignty.

  1. ^ Waitangi Tribunal (1999), The Whanganui River Report (PDF), Wellington: GP Publications
  2. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference Collinson1855 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Wanganui". Wellington Independent. Vol. 3, no. 175. 16 June 1847. p. 3.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference cowanwanga was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b "Official Despatches". The Wellington Independent. Vol. 3, no. 172. 5 June 1847. p. 3.
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  6. ^ a b "Official Despatches". The Wellington Independent. Vol. 3, no. 190. 7 August 1847. p. 2.
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  7. ^ "The Wellington Independent". Vol. 3, no. 188. 31 July 1847. p. 2.
  8. ^ Beaglehole, Diana. "Whanganui Places: Petre, Wanganui or Whanganui?'". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Wellington: Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 September 2021.