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Queen's Redoubt

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Queen's Redoubt

Queen’s Redoubt was built at Pōkeno as the base camp for the invasion of Waikato by government forces. This image, based on an 1863 drawing by Lieutenant H. S. Bates, shows the walls of the huge fort on top of a low hill in the middle distance, with soldiers’ tents in the foreground.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0054-1-241

by Henry Stratton Bates

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – Pākehā impact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27077/queens-redoubt (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.