Second Samoan Civil War

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Main article: History of Samoa
See also: Siege of Apia
Second Samoan Civil War
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Map featuring the locations of battles in which British and American forces fought.
Date 1898 - 1899
Location Apia, Upolu, Samoa, Pacific Ocean
Result Allies defeat Mata'afa but cannot destroy his army, compromise peace. United States acquires American Samoa, Britain withdraws claim in exchange for concessions in the Solomon Islands, Germany acquires German Samoa. Mata'afa Iosefo becomes high chief of German Samoa.
Belligerents
Allies:
Samoa Samoa
United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
United States United States		 Samoa Mataafans
German Empire German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Samoa Prince Tanu
US Naval Jack 45 stars.svg Albert Kautz
United Kingdom Leslie Stuart		 Samoa Mata'afa Iosefo
German Empire unknown
Second Samoan Civil War

The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean. At the war's conclusion in 1899, the United States was granted the eastern section of the islands, the Germans were granted the western section of the islands, and the British were given other Pacific island chains formerly belonging to Germany.[1] The German half is now an independent nation: The Independent State of Samoa. The American half has voluntarily remained under the control of the American government as the territory of American Samoa.

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Allies [edit]

The allies were the Samoan followers of Prince Tanu and supporting naval forces from the United States and the United Kingdom who fought against the rebels of Mata'afa Iosefo.[2]

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Gallery [edit]

  • Tivoli Hotel in 1896, used as the command post for American force during the battle at Apia.

  • United States Marines and a naval gun in Upolu, 1899.

  • Samoan warriors and American servicemen during the Siege of Apia in March 1899.

  • German flag raising ceremony commemorating the creation of German Samoa in 1900.

  • Samoans, Americans and Britons holding a ceremony while erecting a monument on Mulinuu Peninsula, 1902.

  • Mata'afa Iosefo and followers, 1902.

References [edit]

  1. ^ Ryden, George Herbert. The Foreign Policy of the United States in Relation to Samoa. New York: Octagon Books, 1975. (Reprint by special arrangement with Yale University Press. Originally published at New Haven: Yale University Press, 1928), p. 574; the Tripartite Convention (United States, Germany, Great Britain) was signed at Washington on 2 December 1899 with ratifications exchanged on 16 February 1900
  2. ^ Mains, P. John; McCarty, Louis Philippe (1906). The Statistician and Economist: Volume 23. pg. 249
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