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and during the course of the afternoon small groups of warriors were able to join them. Eventually, they breached the outer defensive trench. As night fell, more reinforcements joined them but ammunition was low. Ropata requested some be brought up, but night had fallen and no one wanted to make the
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he and his 90 men patrolled the western edges of the
Ureweras in the hopes of capturing Te Kooti. His force fired the last shots of the New Zealand Wars on 14 February 1872, when they caught sight of Te Kooti and a party of his men and pursued them for a distance up the Waiau Valley. Preece and his
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climb up in the dark. Ropata and Preece abandoned the position early the following morning as their men had run out of ammunition. They then withdrew from
Ngatapa altogether, fatigued from the marching and fighting of the past several days, and returned to Tūranga.
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along with 200 Pai Mārire warriors and their families. He became their leader and in July 1868 escaped captivity with his followers, landing back in
Poverty Bay in July 1868, triggering what was subsequently known as Te Kooti's War.
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At the start of the conflict, Preece was commissioned into the Armed
Constabulary. This was a paramilitary law enforcement agency that formed New Zealand's main defence force at the time and which was led by Colonel
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in March 1870. His force, known as Arawa Flying Column No. 2, was one of two parties that would be active in the
Urewera ranges from 1870 to 1872. Operating from a base at
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Following a massacre carried out by Te Kooti in
October of colonists in Poverty Bay, Preece was promoted to lieutenant and was given command of a force of around 170
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216:, for the military. Following the outbreak of Te Kooti's War in 1868, he became an officer in the Armed Constabulary and was heavily involved in the pursuit of
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378:. Together with Ropata's men, Preece and his Wairoa warriors attacked Ngatapa the next day. They were able to make it up close to the
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on one side, and
British imperial and colonial forces and their Māori allies on the other. These clashes are collectively termed the
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Promoted to sub-inspector, Preece continued to serve in the Armed
Constabulary until 1876 at which time he became a magistrate at
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Preece continued to be involved in the pursuit of Te Kooti, who along with his surviving followers had fled to the rugged
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Zealand Wars: A History of the Māori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, 1864–72
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Māori and led this for the next two years in expeditions in the rugged
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185:who rose to prominence during
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306:was a Māori warrior of the
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