The musket, a long-barrelled muzzle-loaded gun, would have devastating effects during intertribal Māori warfare as Ngāti Kahungunu of Te Matau ā Māui (Hawke’s Bay) would find out.

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Early matchlock guns are extremely rare. The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial America. 1498 - Rifling principle is discovered.

Some of the English journals are making quite an outcry because on one musket taken, in the hands of a captured Fenian, were found the letters "U.S." Now, we propose that every musket or other gun ...

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S en. J.D. Vance writes it is time to "load the muskets" in the newly revealed forward of an upcoming book from the architect of Project 2025, the controversial policy platform from which his ...

Reissued here in its enlarged second edition of 1910, it deals with the inter-tribal 'Musket Wars' of the early nineteenth century, when different Maori communities competed for territory shortly ...

It follows a South Auckland principal teacher’s union slamming the Government’s decision to cut funding to a programme for teachers to learn te reo Māori, saying staff are “extremely ...

Michael Miller is a PhD scholar funded by Te Pūnaha Matatini – New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems. Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington provides ...