Maori Warfare Tactics .. Battle Of RUAPEKAPEKA - The 'Bat's Nest' 1845:

Have you got half-an-hour to spare?  .. to watch a freshly made video about the NEW ZEALAND WARS between Maori and the "European" settlers - that are being commemorated currently. You'll see a fair bit of the Northland countryside - and some muskets:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/programmes/nz-wars/story/2018619186/nz-wars-the-stories-of-ruapekapeka

They had lots of heavy rainfall when filming which helped make conditions very like how it was for the invading troops back in 1845.

It strikes me as being fair & honest about what actually went-on - and makes a good fist of telling how our Maori were militarily smart and resisted the British military technology with all that they had.

I must say that this story very much reminds me of the Vietnamese fighting from "The tunnels of Chu-Chi" (Cu Chi District , Ho Chi Min City area) from that much later 1968 Tet Offensive.

Marty K.