Battle of Moturoa

Tītokowaru advanced southward and defeated a second colonial force at Moturoa. His camp had been established just four days earlier in hilly, bush-covered country below the Okutuku tableland, and Whitmore had moved his field headquarters to Wairoa after learning of the camp, fearing an attack on Waitōtara. The defenses included a double row of strong palisades backed by rifle pits and flanked by two-storeyed erections, which Whitmore later wrote no troops in the world could have hewn through. The engagement occurred during the November 1868 phase of Tītokowaru's War.