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This highly idealised image from 1893 portrays the most famous incident of the New Zealand Wars. At the battle of Ōrākau on 2 April 1864, Ngāti Maniapoto leader Rewi Maniapoto was said to have responded to the offer of surrender with safe passage for women and children by saying, ‘Ka whawhai tonu mātou, āke, āke, āke!’ – ‘We shall fight on, for ever, and ever, and ever!’
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