BRIGADIER-GEXERAL CAREY. Brigadier-General Carey, of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, was one of the most conspicuous officers in the Waikato "War of 1863-4. He conducted the operations against the Orakau pa, where about three hundred natives of the Ngatirsaaniapoto, Urewera and Taupo tribes made such a heroic defence against an overwhelming force of British infantry, artillery and cavalry.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 21 (Supplement)
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58BRIGADIER-GEXERAL CAREY. Brigadier-General Carey, of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, was one of the most conspicuous officers in the Waikato "War of 1863-4. He conducted the operations against the Orakau pa, where about three hundred natives of the Ngatirsaaniapoto, Urewera and Taupo tribes made such a heroic defence against an overwhelming force of British infantry, artillery and cavalry. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 21 (Supplement)
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