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page 44 Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the Maoris.. The position occupied by the great chief, Te Rauparaha, in connection with the establishment and earlier progress of the New Zealand Company's settlement in Cook Strait would alone justify us in recording all that can still be learnt of the career of remarkable man, but, when in addition to the interest which his personal history possesses for ...
Te Rauparaha died on 27 November 1849 and was buried near the church, Rangiātea, in Ōtaki. He is believed to have been reinterred on Kāpiti. Te Rauparaha was a great tribal leader. He took his tribe from defeat at Kāwhia to the conquest of new territories in central New Zealand.
Hace 2 días · Thought to have been born in the 1760-70s. Te Rauparaha was the youngest son of Werawera (Ngati Toa) and his second wife Parekowhatu (Ngati Raukawa). According to Ngati Toa traditions he was born at the time of the battle of Hingakaka in the late 18th century. In his youth he was the arms bearer of the Ngati Raukawa chief Hape-ki-tua-rangi.
Te Rauparaha: A New Perspective. Patricia Burns. Reed, 1980 - Maori (New Zealand people) - 346 pages. "Te Rauparaha's notoriety was established even before the first British settlers arrived in New Zealand, and the myth of Te Rauparaha the murderous savage was one which few Europeans felt inclined to explode.
TE RAUPARAHA. ( c. 1768–1849). War chief of the Ngati Toa. A new biography of Te Rauparaha appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. This famous chief of the Ngati Toa was born in 1768 or 1769, probably at Maungatautari, the home of his mother's people. He was the son of Werawera, a chief of the Ngati Toa, and, through ...
Tāmihana Te Rauparaha, known also as Katu, was the son of the great Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha and his fifth and senior wife, Te Ākau of Tūhourangi. He was born at Pukearuhe, a Ngāti Tama pā in northern Taranaki, while Ngāti Toa were on their long journey from Kāwhia to the south. He took the name Tāmihana (Thompson) when he was ...
