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5 unusual facts about Thomas McDonnell


Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui

This was the start of six years of warfare for Te Keepa, always fighting on the side of the Pākehā government, usually working closely with Captain Thomas McDonnell.

Thomas McDonnell

He received the New Zealand Cross on 31 March 1886, and published fragmented memoirs, as well as a fanciful 'Maori history' of the wars.

The same year McDonnell took command of the Patea district, and was instructed to implement the survey of land nominally confiscated from Ngati Ruanui.

Thomas McDonnell, Snr.

(1788 in County Antrim, Ireland – 13 September 1864 in Onehunga, Auckland) was a timber trader and Additional British Resident in New Zealand.

He later returned to England and was appointed Additional British Resident in New Zealand in late 1834 or early 1835.



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