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Rh To the Hon. the Minister of Internal Affairs, and to the Under-Secretary of that Department, my gratitude is due for the liberal arrangements which made the writing and publication of this work possible.

The principal campaigns and expeditions dealt with in the History are as follows:—


 * 1) Hone Heke's War in the north, 1845–46.
 * 2) The campaign in the Wellington district, 1846.
 * 3) The war at Wanganui, 1847.
 * 4) The first Taranaki War, 1860–61.
 * 5) The second Taranaki War, 1863.
 * 6) The Waikato War, 1863–64.
 * 7) The Tauranga campaign, 1864.
 * 8) The first Hauhau War, Taranaki, 1864–66.
 * 9) The Opotiki and Matata operations, 1865.
 * 10) The East Coast War, 1865.
 * 11) Fighting in Tauranga and Rotorua districts, 1867.
 * 12) Titokowaru's War, West Coast, 1868–69.
 * 13) The campaigns against Te Kooti (East Coast, Taupo, and Urewera country), 1868–72.

The period covered in the present volume is from the outbreak of Heke's War in 1845 to the end of the Kingite wars in Taranaki, Waikato, and the Bay of Plenty, 1864. The second volume is devoted to the Hauhau campaigns, 1864–72.

Wellington, New Zealand. June, 1922