Second Samoan Civil War

Second Samoan Civil War

Map featuring the locations of battles in which British and American forces fought.
Date 1898 - 1899
Location Apia, Upolu, Samoa, Pacific Ocean
Result Mataafan victory, Mata'afa Iosefo becomes high chief of Samoa. United States acquires American Samoa, Germany acquires German Samoa.
Belligerents
Allies:
Samoa
 United Kingdom
 United States		 Mataafans
Commanders and leaders
Tanu
Albert Kautz
Leslie Stuart		 Mata'afa Iosefo
Second Samoan Civil War
Main article: History of Samoa
See also: Siege of Apia

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

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

References

  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