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Lifetime: 1812 - 1897 Passed: ≈ 127 years ago

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Robert Burrows

Books by Robert Burrows

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845 Cover image

Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Rev. R. Burrows during Heke's War in the North, in 1845

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War Conflict British New Zealand Eyewitness Missionary Maori Hone Heke Flagstaff Mediation Treaty of Waitangi

An eye-witness account of the Flagstaff War, fought between Maori warriors, led by Hone Heke, and British troops between March 1845 and January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands. Ostensibly triggered by the cutting down of the flagstaff above Kor...