Colonel Greer continues the campaign by conducting…

Colonel Greer continues the campaign by conducting patrols in strength with five hundred and ninety-four men of the 43rd Regiment and 68th Regiment.

On June 21, he comes upon a force of about five hundred Māori building a new Pā at Te Ranga, some seven kilometers from his base.

They had done little more than dig a rifle pits and trenches, with no outer works.

However Greer has sufficient respect for his enemy that he immediately calls for reinforcements.

This is the opportunity Cameron had always been looking for, to be able to meet the Māori in the open.

The Māori fight desperately but are overwhelmed by the British soldiery, with one hundred and six Maori dead, buried in their own earthworks.

The Battle of Te Ranga is the last serious engagement of the Tauranga campaign.

Insofar as the Tauranga Campaign has been a sideshow of the Waikato War, it also marks the tacit end of that conflict.

The success at Te Ranga is hailed as a great British victory, one that has wiped out the shame of the defeat at Gate Pa.

It certainly does a great deal to restore British morale, particularly for the 43rd Regiment, whose members had been involved in both engagements and had lost many men at Gate Pa.