The Battle of Hingakaka - New Zealand Musket Wars. (1803 CE approx)

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  • An epic battle, the greatest in pre-European Aotearoa New Zealand - aggrieved over what he saw as the unfair division of a fish harvest, Pikau-te-rangi of Ngati Toa-rangatira raised an army of 10,000 men. He led them against Te Rauangaanga, Te Wherowhero's father who rallied 3,000 men from Waikato and Ngati Maniapoto to defend their home territories against invasion.
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    The Battle of Hingakaka is claimed to have been the largest battle ever fought in New Zealand. It may also have been one of the last great battles in world history that did not see significant usage of gunpowder firearms or other modern weapons. Essentially an intertribal conflict among the Maori, the details of Hingakaka are surprisingly well known, possibly due to the fact that regular contact with Europeans was just beginning around the time. Strangely, the exact date of the battle (or even year) is not known with certainty. The best estimate seems to have been around 1803. The Battle of Hingakaka seems to have accelerated the disunity of the Maori tribes and paved the way for the ensuing Musket Wars.
    One of the largest tribal conflicts ever recorded was the Battle of Hingakaka. Probably taking place around the year 1803, this war was ostensibly fought over fishing rights and harvest. Ngati Toa from the southern tip of the North Island decided to launch a punitive war against the Ngati Maniapoto tribe in what is now the Waikato region at the north end of the island.
    According to available accounts, the Ngati Toa chief Pikauterangi marshaled an army of perhaps more than ten thousand warriors for the campaign and marched north. However, the invaders were spotted before they had a chance to begin the slaughter. The Ngati Maniapoto and their allies hastily gathered a force of about sixteen hundred warriors to oppose the Ngati Toa. Having time to choose the ground of the battle, the defenders organized themselves on a high ridge just south of Lake Ngarato.
    The battle was a disaster for the invaders. At first the Ngati Toa seemed to gain the upper hand, surrounding some of the defending force. However, reinforcements for the northerners charged down the hill, breaking the encirlement and killing the Toa chief in the process. The confused southerners were forced to retreat, and the retreat became a rout. Many of the invaders were killed or captured as they attempted to flee into the nearby lake and swamps. The engagement came to be known as Hingakaka (the Fall of the Parrots) because so many tribal chieftains were killed during the fighting.

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  • @miz1206
    @miz1206 3 роки тому +5

    Wow outstanding a true master class of story telling I could listen to your voice for hours kiaora to your oratory skill whanau.

  • @retimixshotcrete5870
    @retimixshotcrete5870 Рік тому +2

    Beautiful korero,

  • @kiatiputereootuo8040
    @kiatiputereootuo8040 2 роки тому +8

    100% an interhapū conflict that perhaps the details of which survive today because the details were passed on through oral transmission by the thousands or families of the thousands who were involved...and not because Europeans wrote it down? Just a thought...
    Ngāti Toa now reside at the 'southern tip' of the North Island, but are originally from Kāwhia, which was their home base at the time of the battle of Hinga Kākā.

    • @ironknives5395
      @ironknives5395 2 роки тому +1

      Ngati TOA Tamihana And his uncle king makers.

  • @teahurupe5954
    @teahurupe5954 2 роки тому +1

    Chur Tena koe for Retelling this story haven’t heard this for ages

  • @iontiger8766
    @iontiger8766 2 місяці тому

    nice doco bro

  • @davethewave7248
    @davethewave7248 Рік тому

    Nice video. But surely, there were greater battles, and campaigns, once certain tribes had better access to more muskets? Interesting how in the end Ngati Toa was compelled to migrate due to Waikato pressure... and the ensuing carnage that engulfed the lower North Island and top of the South Island. It really makes one wonder what drove the ferocity of chiefs like Te Rauparaha and Hongi Hika....
    Alos, didn't Te WheroWhero only become known as king in the late 1850s.... in the Maori response to European expansion?

    • @kenwarrington6839
      @kenwarrington6839 7 місяців тому

      there were many, of which this is one, there was no expansion, it was an invasion

    • @davethewave7248
      @davethewave7248 7 місяців тому

      @@kenwarrington6839 The chiefs were grateful for the spread of civilization to these shores. They were most eager for Euripeans to settle near them, and between them, as this brought an end to the carnage of the inter-tribal warfare period known ar the musket wars. They were truly brutal.

    • @kenwarrington6839
      @kenwarrington6839 7 місяців тому

      @@davethewave7248 CIVILIZED RACES COMMIT GENOCIDE TO INDIGENIOUS PEOPLES DO THEY LOL WHATA JOKE, BEST YOU RESEARCH HOW THE COLONIES WE TAKEN, WASNT BY HANDSHAKES AND HUGS

    • @kiwiinkampuchea
      @kiwiinkampuchea 5 місяців тому

      @@davethewave7248 all about trade and raising the mana of their tribes before others could. It was only after the Treaty was dishonoured that the real nasty stuff started.

    • @davethewave7248
      @davethewave7248 5 місяців тому +1

      @@kiwiinkampuchea Not true. The real nasty stuff happened in the musket wars before the signing of the treaty. Whole tribes were butchered by other tribes in a near endless cycle of violence. This stopped [for twenty years] with settlement and the signing.

  • @DW_Kiwi
    @DW_Kiwi Рік тому

    The musket wars occurred well after 1803

  • @EastSide-k1m
    @EastSide-k1m 9 місяців тому +1

    So the first king had the arawa blood fuuu

  • @GoEatDo
    @GoEatDo 2 роки тому +2

    Unfortunately the use of unexplained terms makes this otherwise fascinating story difficult to understand to outsiders unfamiliar with Maori heritage.

    • @fabianmarshall388
      @fabianmarshall388 2 роки тому +3

      Unfortunately translating the terms into English terms completely distorts the narrations of the entire story,culture ,people, geograph,history until eventually we are all confused about what we are learning

    • @GoEatDo
      @GoEatDo 11 місяців тому

      @@Mr_Riffman08 How offensive. Go and have a think about your future behavior.

  • @brendanryan6740
    @brendanryan6740 8 місяців тому +1

    thats 10pc of the population...the losers get eaten and no one mentions the fish....utu

  • @Rodtang-x5z
    @Rodtang-x5z Рік тому +2

    Pikauterangi had 10000 troops???
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    Pure bullshit...
    No chief at that time would of been able to muster even half that number...ask anyone from Tuhoe about this battle and they will say "Pikau-who and the battle of Hinga-what???""
    Doesn't it seem strange that Tuhoe (among a bunch of other tribes that supposedly joined Pikauterangi) wouldn't be able to recall any of the chiefs they supposedly lost at what was supposed to be the greatest battle that Aotearoa had ever seen???And if such numbers were killed there, where are all the bones of the slain which should have numbered into the thousands if the numbers killed there were true, and where are all the weapons which should also number into the thousands as well???Why hasn't ANY of the tribes that took part in this battle on Pikauterangi's side ever requested the return of the bones of their revered chiefs and warriors???
    The numbers that this story says were present at this battle just is not possible...this story is more a lie than it ever was a truth...
    I'd bet good money that the narrator of this video is reading right along with what Pei Te Hurinui Jones and Leslie Kelly wrote about this battle...absolute crap...if one were to study the lay of the land as it was back at that time with all its undrained swamps and lakes, there is absolutely NO way you could put thousands of people onto such a small and narrow battlefield...it just isn't possible...

    • @kenwarrington6839
      @kenwarrington6839 7 місяців тому

      all battles were lies, they all were blowasses

    • @Mr_Riffman08
      @Mr_Riffman08 3 місяці тому

      Why would you ask Tuhoe about Tainui chiefs ??That's like asking The Americans about The Red Army in WW2..If it isn't Tuhoe it doesn't mean 💩...

    • @Rodtang-x5z
      @Rodtang-x5z 3 місяці тому

      @Mr_Riffman08 I said why hasn't Tuhoe asked about the return of their OWN slain chiefs bones...not Tainui's...

    • @Mr_Riffman08
      @Mr_Riffman08 3 місяці тому

      @@Rodtang-x5z "Ask anyone from Tuhoe about this battle and they'll tell you Pikau-who?and the battle of hinga- what??"
      That's what you said and that's what I'm replying too

    • @Rodtang-x5z
      @Rodtang-x5z 3 місяці тому

      @Mr_Riffman08 Ahh...yes...Tuhoe were said to have been among those who supported Pikauterangi in the battle of Hingakaka. Upon our asking the old people of Tuhoe about this battle none of them said their war chiefs were there, and if they were, they said every effort will have been made to retrieve their bodies from the battlefield, right down to appealing to Waikato to be able to do so, as it was an old custom of the times.
      They knew about going to the battle of Orakau, but not the battle of Hingakaka...they knew even less of Pikauterangi, even though he was a chief, he was not widely known nor held in as high regard as other known chiefs...Pikauterangi became known because of the Hingakaka battle, before that, barely anyone knew of him except those of Ngati Toa...