[189] 1st battalion, 12th, and 2nd battalions, 14th and XVIIIth regiments, and the 40th, 57th, 65th, and 70th regiments, which were still one-battalion corps. There were detachments of Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, a Military Train, a Naval brigade, and various Colonial corps, including a contingent of friendly natives. The 43rd, 50th, and 68th regiments, and a considerable number of volunteers enlisted in Australia, reached New Zealand later in the war.
[190] Pember Reeves, ‘The Long White Cloud,’ pp. 48, 49.
[191] Brevet-Colonel Carey, Lieutenant-Colonel Havelock, afterwards Havelock-Allan, V. C., D.A.Q.M.G., and Captain T. D. Baker, A.M.S., were so constantly mentioned in despatches throughout the war that it is unnecessary to record the fact after each affair in which they were engaged.
[192] The regimental records of the New Zealand War are far from complete, for the battalion was constantly broken up into small detachments, buried in stockades in the depths of the bush. Between these detachments and headquarters communication was most difficult, and for weeks, and even months, the various portions of the regiment knew nothing of each other’s proceedings.
[193] ‘Bush Fighting: The Maori War,’ by Major-General Sir J. E. Alexander, p. 59.
[194] See [Appendix 2 (K)].
[195] Native house or hut.
[196] See [Appendix 2 (K)].
[197] See [Appendix 2 (K)]. It was not until the bush had been cleared for two hundred yards on each side of the track that waggons could move through the forest of Hunua with safety.
[198] G. W. Rusden, ‘History of New Zealand,’ vol. ii. p. 45. In another passage (p. 173) this author considers that the destruction of this war party signally foiled the Maoris’ scheme of attack on Cameron’s left and rear.