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The New Zealand Wars 1 - The War that Britain Lost (First Episode)

Television (Excerpts) – 1998

Each amputation asked this question — if the British could not protect their own flag, in the midst of one of their largest settlements, what could they protect?
– James Belich on Hōne Heke’s felling of the flagstaffs