The War in New Zealand: The 57th Regiment Taking a Maori Redoubt on the Katikara River, Taranaki.

On June 1863 colonial forces attacked Maori fortifications near the Katikara River. The engraving depicts the forces charge, before ultimately taking the redoubt.

Early in June General Cameron moved out against the southern tribes who were resisting the Government’s title to the Tataraimaka Block. At St. George’s Redoubt, the post which he had established at Tataraimaka, he concentrated a considerable force. The Taranaki, Ngati-Ruanui, Nga-Rauru, and Whanganui men had entrenched themselves in a position above a mile beyond St. George’s Redoubt and near the mouth of the Katikara River. Falling in at daybreak on the 4th June the 57th (under Colonel Warre) and the 70th crossed the Katikara River and advanced upon the native entrenchments.

From the original edition of the Illustrated London News.