NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana | The Battle of Pukehinahina | RNZ
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
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The Battle of Pukehinahina, as recreated in the documentary.
Made with the support of NZ On Air.
This is pretty cool
As a kuki the Maori are the true warriors of the pacific when it came to warfare. I know samoa and tahiti went to war with Europe but nothing compared to the level of scale the maori had to endure. Reinforcements kept coming in when the maori were becoming more of a threat. One of the only nations to give hell to the Europeans and almost overcoming them in war. Everyone likes to say tonga or samoa or even fijia are the real warriors but are they really is the question.
Definitely Māori 100% they were just on another level
As a Samoan and Maori who knows Polynesian history you are absolutely correct yes Samoa had battles here and there from 1787-1899 with Europeans/Americans but it's nothing compared to the maori struggle maoris actually waged full on wars with the British maori lands were actually invaded unlike in Samoa where the Europeans and Americans got involved in the fighting sometimes however most of the fighting were between Samoans themselves the palagis/pakehas exploited the tribal rivalries at the time
to make it easier to understand imagine if there were a even amount of kupapa maori and freedom fighter maoris and most of the fighting were between the maori while the British only joined in when the kupapa maori started losing to many battles and then by the time both sides were weak from fighting eachother the whites sweeped in and took everything (remember this did not happen just using it as an example) but this exanple is pretty much what happend in Samoa which is why many Samoans choose to forget and are ashamed of this period
The tahitians did however fight against the french in a full on war however tahitian tactics were very crude leading to heavy tahitian losses however tahiti still tried there best.
The Tongans however were just straight traitors to Polynesia (Sorry tongans no offence its just shitty parts of history) yes there is one time the tongans fought the white man when they attacked the British ship the port au prince in 1809 but that was about it there are even reports of British warships being welcomed and given supplies like food and fresh water by the tongans in the mid 1800s those very same warships and soldiers were then sent to fight the maori during the land wars especially when the Imperial troops were heavily involved aswell as rebel Samoans who faced daily Bombardments by those very same warships even the Germens who battled the Samoans in 1888 were resupplied in tonga long story short they made agreements alliances and accepted alot of the white man's rules integrating them into tongan culture they pretty much colonized themselves in a way
But back to maori yes 100% out of all Polynesians the maori fought the hardest unlike other Polynesians the maori faced full on invasions and actually held the line longer then the people at the time expected they used tactics that truly gave the British a shock and as you probably know maoris upgraded trench warfare in such a way that I personally believe the British built-up some type of respect for them even though the maori were outnumbered and out gunned they fought long and hard surprising the British with different tactics at every turn truly a monument for indigenous people around the world during the colonial era however I wouldn't say they almost overcome the British don't get me wrong the maori fought hard but at the end of the day there were no match for the British power the white men during that time period are not like the ones today like it or not they were the greatest warriors in the world during that time period they were the number 1 super power at the time for a reason but please don't take it the wrong way I just like history but you can't deny the British might during this dark time in world history maori were not the only ones who were eventually defeated hundreds of races and cultures fell to British guns its the sad reality
Lest we forgot the fallen of Polynesia
@@malietoasamoa1301 10000% Tonga colonised themselves! I’m a. Tongan and I agree with you 😂
As an Indian that has nothing to gain in this thing in the Pacific I will say Tonga is the only country that was never colonized. Been studying the history of the Pacific and they truly did create an empire that spanned the Pacific and was never colonized by the Europeans
@ibrahem330 they didn't get colonized but they were very heavily included by the British but yes the Tui Tonga empire did rule parts of Polynesia