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  2. Liliʻuokalani - Wikipedia

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    Liliʻuokalani was active in philanthropy and the welfare of her people. In 1886, she founded a bank for women in Honolulu named Liliuokalani's Savings Bank and helped Isabella Chamberlain Lyman establish Kumukanawai o ka Liliuokalani Hui Hookuonoono, a money lending group for women in Hilo. In the same year, she also founded the Liliʻuokalani ...

  3. Death and state funeral of Liliʻuokalani - Wikipedia

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    According to her lady-in-waiting Lahilahi Webb, the Queen had been in rapidly failing health and diminished mental capacity during the weeks immediately preceding her death. Besides Webb, those who were with her at the end were her doctor William Cotton Hobdy , Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole , and his wife Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaʻole .

  4. Proposed 1893 Constitution of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    However, the Committee of Safety did not believe her promise was sincere, and continued with their planning. A group of men mostly drawn from the ranks of the Reform Party of the Hawaiian Kingdom formed the Committee of Safety and asked the United States Minister, John L. Stevens , to land troops from the U.S.S. Boston (anchored in Honolulu ...

  5. The true story of how American landowners overthrew the ...

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    In her memoir, Kalākaua's sister Lili'uokalani, who would later become queen, wrote that the king signed the new constitution because he was afraid of being assassinated if he refused.

  6. Opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The majority of native Hawaiians refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the provisional government, and continually protested against the proposed constitution of 1894 - the women’s branch of the Hui Aloha ʻĀina wrote to western foreign ministers, calling the constitution “illiberal and despotic”. [16] Hui Aloha ʻĀina for Women.

  7. Republic of Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Hawaii put the former Queen on trial. The prosecution asserted that Liliuokalani had committed misprision of treason, because she allegedly knew that guns and bombs for the Wilcox attempted counter-revolution had been hidden in the flower bed of her personal residence at Washington Place. Liliuokalani denied these accusations.

  8. Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom was a coup d'état against Queen Liliʻuokalani that took place on January 17, 1893, on the island of Oahu, and was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German [6]) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu.

  9. 1895 Wilcox rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Most of Wilcox's men had not eaten since the start of the rebellion and spirits were low. The Republican Government forces did not immediately pursue the Royalists because a riot had broken out among Japanese plantation workers in ʻEwa, and the government, in reaction, drew forces away from the nearly crushed rebellion to deal with this new ...