Musket Wars

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title: Musket Wars
text: The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats. The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the signing of the Treaty of
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description: Armed conflicts between Māori tribes in New Zealand before 1845
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket_Wars
date created: 2004-03-06T03:56:58Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T23:49:21Z
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