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100	1		_aHamilton-Browne, G., _d1844-1916
245	1	0	_aWith the Lost Legion in New Zealand
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-05-21
508			_aAlan, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520			_a“With the Lost Legion in New Zealand” by G. Hamilton-Browne is a military memoir written in the early 20th century. It follows a hard-bitten colonial officer among irregulars—the “Lost Legion”—through the New Zealand Wars, combining campaign narrative with portraits of comrades and bush fighting against Hau Hau adherents. Expect frank critiques of regular-army methods, vivid accounts of frontier warfare, and an emphasis on the often-overlooked role of colonial fighters. The opening of the memoir sets out the author’s purpose: to correct English ignorance about the New Zealand campaigns and honor the colonial irregulars, asserting that the tale is essentially true. The narrative pauses to explain the Hau Hau (Pai Mārire) movement—its prophetic origins, the use of Captain Lloyd’s head as an oracle, early clashes like Sentry Hill and Mutoa, and notorious murders at Opotiki—before returning to the first-person story. We meet the narrator as “Richard Burke,” an Irish-born soldier of fortune whose career detours through duels, a stint with the Papal Zouaves, and exile to New Zealand with his loyal servant Tim Egan. Arriving in Wellington amid ongoing war, he’s urged to join colonial irregulars rather than regular troops, hears seasoned settlers’ scathing views of British generalship, and outfits himself for bush work. The section closes with his enlistment in the Forest Rangers under Colonel McDonnell at Patea and brisk sketches of his rough-and-ready messmates. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: T. Werner Laurie, 1911
653			_aNew Zealand -- History
653			_aMāori (New Zealand people)
700	1		_aValda, S.
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/withlostlegionin00hami/page/n7/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78721
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