4 avr. 1845 - Pōmare's Pā (Otuihu) burned.
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- After Kororāreka the pākehā population of Auckland panicked, imagining that an Ngāpuhi invasions about to happen.
-The Ngāpuhi chiefs generally agreed that the Crown was not honouring Te Tiriti.
- At the end of April, 470 officers and men of the were dispatched to the Bay of Islands by ship. The officers decided that their first strike would against Otuihu Pā, the long established papa kāinga (home village) for the people of Ngāti Manu.
The British troop ships sailed up the Kawakawa River and anchored off Otuihu.
-The British persuaded Pōmare to come aboard the ship. When Pōmare made to leave the ship, he was seized and made prisoner.
- The soldiers entered Otuihu, stole the valuable stores of trade goods, and set the pā ablaze.
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