Troop Buildup · British forces under Duncan Cameron begin the Invasion of the Waikato

Governor Grey summoned increased numbers of British troops for the invasion, with total numbers peaking at about 14,000 in March 1864.

From about 1862, British troops arrived in New Zealand in much greater numbers, summoned by Governor Grey for his Waikato invasion. In May 1863, after hostilities broke out in Taranaki, Grey separately applied to the Secretary of State in London for the immediate dispatch of three more regiments and wrote to the Australian governors asking for whatever British troops could be made available. Total troop numbers peaked at about 14,000 in March 1864, comprising 9,000 Imperial troops, more than 4,000 colonial forces, and a few hundred kūpapa.

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