M?ori initial settled in Rotorua during the 14th century, along with a flourishing p? was founded at Ohinemutu through the people that would turn into Ng?ti Whakaue. the town became carefully connected with conflict in the course of the Musket Wars of your 1820s. Ohinemutu was invaded by a Ng?puhi-led coalition in 1823, commanded by Hongi Hika and