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Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) launch a preventive attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, killing nearly 2,500 people and causing American entry into World War II. Niihau Incident (1941) IJN pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi crash-landed on the island of Niihau and attempted to control the population to keep from being taken prisoner and ...
Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), [2] nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaiʻi, was a Hawaiian revolutionary soldier and politician, who led uprisings against both the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom under King Kalākaua and the Republic of Hawaii under Sanford Dole, what are now known as the Wilcox rebellions.
The Leper War on Kauaʻi also known as the Koʻolau Rebellion, Battle of Kalalau, or the short name, the Leper War. Following the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom , the stricter government enforced the 1865 "Act to Prevent the Spread of Leprosy " carried out by Attorney General and President of the Board of Health William Owen Smith .
After the outbreak of the American Civil War, the Kingdom of Hawaii under King Kamehameha IV declared its neutrality on August 26, 1861. [1] [2] However, many Native Hawaiians and Hawaii-born Americans (mainly descendants of the American missionaries), abroad and in the islands, enlisted in the military regiments of various states in the Union and the Confederacy.
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
The Battle of Nuʻuanu (Hawaiian: Kalelekaʻanae; literally the leaping mullet), fought in May 1795 on the southern part of the island of Oʻahu, was a key battle in the final days of King Kamehameha I's wars to conquer the Hawaiian Islands.
The VA report also notes that more than 90% of the 42,000 Native Americans who served during the Vietnam War had volunteered even when the draft was in effect and serve disproportionately in some ...
Herbert Kailieha Pililaʻau (October 10, 1928 – September 17, 1951) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Korean War. A Native Hawaiian who was born and raised on the island of Oʻahu, he was