On 22 February 1860 mounting tensions over the sale of a 600-acre (240 hectare) block of land at Waitara led to the declaration of martial law in Taranaki and three weeks later, on 17 March, Governor Thomas Gore Browne ordered a military assault on Te Atiawa chief Wiremu K*ngi and his people at a defensive p*.
Thomas Gore Browne
Wiremu K*ngi