# Putahi

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**Putahi** is a 381 m (1,250 ft) high [rhyolite](/source/Rhyolite) dome, in the [Kaikohe-Bay of Islands volcanic field](/source/Kaikohe-Bay_of_Islands_volcanic_field) in [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand).[1] To the north of Putahi is [Lake Ōmāpere](/source/Lake_%C5%8Cm%C4%81pere). To its north east are the volcanoes of [Tarahi](/source/Tarahi_(volcano)) and [Te Ahuahu](/source/Te_Ahuahu).

## History

It was the site of the first, successful for the British, battle of the [Flagstaff War](/source/Flagstaff_War) of 1845–46 against [Hōne Heke](/source/H%C5%8Dne_Heke)'s [Ngāpuhi](/source/Ng%C4%81puhi) tribe fraction. [Lieutenant-Colonel William Hulme](/source/William_Hulme_(British_Army_officer)) and his force of about 200 soldiers, marines and volunteers having destroyed a coastal [pā](/source/Pa_(M%C4%81ori)) at Ōtuihu moved on Hōne Heke at his new pā (Te Mawhe Pā) on the Lake Ōmāpere side of Puketutu which they arrived at on 7 May 1845 before its fortifications were fully complete. However the next day, they were attacked on the flank by a force of 140 fighters led by [Te Ruki Kawiti](/source/Te_Ruki_Kawiti) and as the British dealt with this, Hōne Heke attacked from the pā defences. In the fierce running battle that ensured the [Ngāpuhi](/source/Ng%C4%81puhi) withdrew initially to the pā, and then abandoning it, after the British realised they could not take it without artillery, so withdrew themselves from continued confrontation. The Ngāpuhi had lost 28 warriors to the British death toll of 15 by the time of the British occupation of the now empty pā, that never again was used by the Ngāpuhi. The Māori learnt an important lesson at Puketutu: that the British were a formidable foe in open battle and changed their tactics towards using fully prepared pās in future clashes.[2]

## References

1. Hayward, Bruce & Smith, Ian (2002). ["Field Trip 7: A Taste of Northland Geology"](https://www.gsnz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Shop/Products/GSNZ_annual_conference/MP112_2002_Whangarei/MP112B_2002_GSNZ_conference_Whangarei_FT7_Northland_geology.pdf). *Field Trip Guides, GSNZ Annual Conference "Northland 2002"*. Geological Society of NZ Miscellaneous Publication 112B. Retrieved 28 March 2012.

1. ["Puketutu and Te Ahuahu - Northern War"](https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/northern-war/puketutu). Ministry for Culture and Heritage - NZ History online. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 2023-01-07.

## External links

- [View of Putahi Hill.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_macca/4079034874/)

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