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They constructed trenches and parapets, a central readout designed to absorb artillery fire.

And technology that British commanders, when they arrived, failed to fully understand before they attacked.

And they had an absolute mozzer.

They had an absolute shitter.

Well, no, just the defensiveness, the defensive lines that they put up here.

They knew how to D up hard, and they D'd up hard.

British arrived with about 1,400 soldiers armed with artillery and river gunboats.

That doesn't feel like heaps.

It doesn't feel like heaps, but at the time they were armed with guns, remember?

And they had gunboats in the mighty Waikato.

That's a severe advantage.

Now, despite eventually occupying parts of the big pa here on the left when we go up here.

Disgusting.

They held out overnight.

But eventually they lost.

They surrendered.

But the British leadership under General Cameron, Duncan Cameron.

He later admitted the strength of the position had been massively underestimated.

Yeah.

And unfortunately, once Rangariri fell, the rest of the Waikato fell as well.