The journal of the Northamptonshire Regiment
Description: 'It was deployed to New Zealand for service in the New Zealand Wars in March 1845. In December 1846, during the Wanganui Campaign, 180 soldiers from the regiment and four Royal Artillery men were landed at Whanganui with two 12-pounder guns and began fortifying the town, building the Rutland Stockade on a hill at the town's northern end and the York Stockade towards the south. The establishment of the garrison heightened Te Mamaku's expectations of government intervention, and he vowed he would protect settlers but fight the soldiers. On 16 April 1847, after a minor chief of the Wanganui people was accidentally shot by a junior army officer, about 500 or 600 heavily-armed MΓori formed a taua (war party) that swept down the Wanganui River, plundering and burning settlers' houses and killing and mutilating a soldier from the 58th Regiment who ventured out of the town. Although some men from the regiment chose to settle in New Zealand, most of the regiment returned home in 1859.--Wikiwand article on the '58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot'
Collection: DOCUMENTARY HERITAGEDescription: 'It was deployed to New Zealand for service in the New Zealand Wars in March 1845. In December 1846, during the Wanganui Campaign, 180 soldiers from the regiment and four…