Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McDonnell
c. 1831–8 November 1899
(Person)
Public servant, military leader, writer.
Works by this Author in other Collections
- Art. LVIII.—The Ancient Moa-hunters at Waingongoro., in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Mentioned in
- A Sketch of the New Zealand War
- Check to Your King
- Hero Stories of New Zealand
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
- Reminiscences of The War in New Zealand
- Contents
- List of Portraits
- Chapter I. — Landing of Troops at Wanganui
- Chapter III. — Colonial Forces under Imperial Rule.—continued. — Battles of Mahoetahi, Mauku, Wairoa Ranges, Waiari Steeam, Orakau, Rangiaohia, Haerini, and Te Matata
- Chapter IX. — Capture of the Weraroa Pah
- Chapter XI — The Opotiki Expedition. — The Landing
- Chapter XII. — The Opotiki Expedition—continued. — Taking of the Pua Pah
- Chapter XIII. — The Opotiki Expedition—continued. — Adventure with Kereopa and his Twelve Apostles. Surrender of Mokomoko and Hakaraia. Return of the Force to Wanganui
- Chapter XVIII. — General Chute's Campaign. — The Fight at Okotuku
- Chapter XIX. — General Chute's Campaign—continued. — Fight at Te Putahi and Otapawa: Narrow Escape of the General
- Chapter XX. — General Chute's Campaign—continued. — Ketemarae. March to Taranaki. Fight at Waikoko
- Chapter XXI. — Colonel McDonnell's Campaign. — Fight at Pokaikai
- Chapter XXII. — Colonel McDonnell's campaign. — Te Pungarehu
- Chapter XXIII. — Colonel McDonnell's Campaign—continued. — Te Umu, Popoia, Tirotiromoana, Rotorua
- Chapter XXIV. — Skirmishes on The East Coast. — Wonderful Escape of Wilkinson and Livingstone. Murder of Moore and Beggs
- Chapter XXVII. — Titokowaru's Outbreak. — Yeae of The Lamb. Colonel McDonnell and Sixty Armed Constabulary Sent To Hokitika
- Chapter XXVIII. — Return from Hokitika. — First and Second Visit to Te Ngutu O Te Manu. Murder of Cahill, Clark, and Squires
- Chapter XXIX. — Hauhaus' Attack on Turu Turu Mokai. — Death of Captain George Ross, Sergeant McFadden, Corporal Blake, and Seven Privates
- Chapter XXX. — First Attack on Te Ngutu o Te Manu With The New Levies. — Death of Captain George Ross, Sergeant McFadden, Corporal Blake, and Seven Privates
- Chapter XXXI. — Second Attack on Te Ngutu O Te Manu. — Death of Von Tempsky, Captains Buck and Palmer, Leutenants Hunter and Hastings
- Chapter XXXII. — The Important Difference Between Disciplined and Undiscplined Men, a Fact Never Sufficiently Recognised by The New Zealand Government. — Death of The Traitor Kimball Bent. Tactics of Titokowaru
- Chapter XXXIII. — Reconnoitring The Hauhau Position at Taiporohenui. Resignation of Colonel McDonnell. — Colonel Whitmore Takes Command. Murder of Collins and McCulloch
- Chapter XXXV. — Five Hundred Hauhaus Within a Day's March of Wanganui. Colonel Whitmore Suddenly Ordered With All His Available Force to Poverty Bay, Te Kooti Having Massacred the Settlers There
- Chapter XLVI. — Operations Against Titokowaru. — Fort Lyon Ambush at the Peach Grove: Massacre of Sergeant Menzies and Six Men
- Chapter LVI. — The Taupo Campaign. — The Massacre of Colonel St John's Escort At Opepe. Te Kooti's Visit to the Waikato and Return to Lake Taupo
- Chapter LVII. — The Taupo Campaign—continued. — Colonel McDonnell Assumes Command. Skirmish at Te Pononga
- Chapter LVIII. — The Taupo Campaign—continued. — Arrival of Major Kepa and the Wanganuis. The War-dance
- Chapter LIX. — The Taupo Campaign—continued. — The Fight at Kaiteriria. Death of Captain St. George
- Chapter LX. — The Taupo Campaign—continued. — Searching for Te Kooti. Skirmish at Tapapa. Capture of Eighty Horses and Considerable Loot
- Chapter LXI. — The Taupo Campaign—continued. — Te Kooti's Attack on Ohinemutu: Succeeds in Again Reaching the Uriwera Country
- Sir Donald Maclean
- Soldiering in New Zealand, Being Reminiscences of a Veteran
- The Adventures of Kimble Bent
- The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Farmer in New Zealand
- The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume I (1845–64)
- The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Volume II: The Hauhau Wars, (1864–72)
- The Web of the Spider
- With the Lost Legion in New Zealand
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- Chapter I — War on The East Coast of New Zealand—Yarn of The Gate Pah
- Chapter III — I Start to Join the Lost Legion
- Chapter IV — I Join the Lost Legion
- Chapter V — My Baptism of Fire. Otapawa
- Chapter VI — A Frolic with the Kupapas
- Chapter VII — Bush-Whacking
- Chapter VIII — "And We Die, and None can Tell them Where We Died."—Kipling
- Chapter IX — I Join the Troopers
- Chapter XII — The Year of the Lamb
- Chapter XIII — Te Ngutu-O-Te-Manu
- Chapter XIV — Moturoa
- Chapter III — Ngatapa
- Chapter VI — The Taupo Campaign
- Chapter VII — The Taupo Campaign—continued
- Chapter VIII — Hide-and-Seek With Te Kooti
Cited in
- Island Stories
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Maori - Volume II
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