Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 8, 2022 7:18:17 GMT 12
Mike Butler: BURNT CHURCH ATROCITY REFUTED
Author Piers Seed, an electrical engineer who turned his analytical skills to writing history, describes his book as a forensic examination into what exactly happened at Rangiaowhia on February 21, 1864.
Part 1 of his book lays out the facts, Part 2 presents the myth, Part 3 has the analysis, and Part 4 reprints all 12 accounts of the incident.
Seed’s analysis of the accounts is systematic and comprehensive, driven by an indefatigable logic that cuts through the sanctimony of grievance and politically correct talk.
And here is the point. There is no evidence to support the claim that British troops burnt to death women and children sheltering in a church. There is:
• No eyewitness account, either English or Maori, of such an atrocity.
• No mention of such an incident in newspaper reports about that day at Rangiaowhia.
• No evidence that any church was burnt there. One of the two churches there is still there and the other was dismantled in 1931.
Seed shows how the myth was created over time, by Kingite spokesman Wiremu Tamihana, who was not an eyewitness......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/mike-butler-burnt-church-atrocity.html
Author Piers Seed, an electrical engineer who turned his analytical skills to writing history, describes his book as a forensic examination into what exactly happened at Rangiaowhia on February 21, 1864.
Part 1 of his book lays out the facts, Part 2 presents the myth, Part 3 has the analysis, and Part 4 reprints all 12 accounts of the incident.
Seed’s analysis of the accounts is systematic and comprehensive, driven by an indefatigable logic that cuts through the sanctimony of grievance and politically correct talk.
And here is the point. There is no evidence to support the claim that British troops burnt to death women and children sheltering in a church. There is:
• No eyewitness account, either English or Maori, of such an atrocity.
• No mention of such an incident in newspaper reports about that day at Rangiaowhia.
• No evidence that any church was burnt there. One of the two churches there is still there and the other was dismantled in 1931.
Seed shows how the myth was created over time, by Kingite spokesman Wiremu Tamihana, who was not an eyewitness......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/05/mike-butler-burnt-church-atrocity.html