Record status: Source needed. The reconstruction is a visual interpretation, never evidence.
Where
Ōrākau, near Kihikihi, Waikato.
What happened
Three hundred defenders held an unfinished pā without water for three days. Asked to surrender, Rewi Maniapoto's people answered: 'Ka whawhai tonu mātou, ake, ake, ake' — we will fight on, forever.