The increased use Using of muskets in intertribal warfare Hostile_encounter led to Causation changes Change in the design Being_in_operation of pā fortifications , which later benefited Earnings_and_losses Māori when engaged Participation in battles with colonial forces during the New Zealand Wars .

Major conflicts Hostile_encounter within the campaign included Cause_to_be_included the cavalry and artillery attack Attack on Te Tarata pā near Opotiki in October 1865 in which about 35 Māori were killed Killing and the seven-day siege Besieging of Waerenga-a-Hika in November 1865 .