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The Ula or I Ula Tavatava [1] is a throwing war club from Fiji. Uses in Fiji ... Tonga - Samoa: La Polynésie Occidentale, Voyageurs & curieux, 2005.
Following the overthrow of the Kingdom, the Missionary Party established a transitional government known as the Provisional Government of Hawaii between the end of the monarchy and the annexation of Hawaii. Leper War on Kauaʻi (1893) Leprosy colony on Kauaʻi rebels against forced relocation to Kalaupapa peninsula. Black Week (1893–1894)
Civil war(17th century) Tonga: Result of Civil conflict / status quo ante bellum. Mataelehaʻamea, the Tu'i Kanokupolu, established the supremacy of his dynasty after a war against the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, Vaea. Unknown Civil war(1799–1852) [1] Tonga: Result of Civil conflict / status quo ante bellum: Unknown Battle of Kaba (1855) Fiji Tonga
In March 2003, military-to-military talks began between Tonga and the United States about Tonga providing personnel for the Multinational force in Iraq. Support arrangements were finalised in May 2004. Forty-five Royal Tongan Marines, led by the Chief of Defence of the Tonga Defence Services, Colonel Tau'aika 'Uta'atu, departed Tonga on 13 June ...
Image Origin Type Calibre Number Notes Handguns Glock 17 AUT Pistol: 9×19mm Parabellum: Bolt-action rifles Lee Enfield No.4 UK Bolt-action rifle.303: Acquired from New Zealand; many remain unissued and in storage. [11] Submachine guns Uzi ISR Sub-machine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum: Assault rifles FN FNC BEL Assault rifle: 5.56×45mm
Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3265-0. Lindstrom, Lamont; White, Geoffrey Miles; Center, East-West (September 17, 1990). Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-87474-457-6.
Before Western contact, many objects of daily use were made of carved wood: food bowls, head rests (kali), war clubs and spears, and cult images. Tongan craftsmen were skilled at inlaying pearl-shell and ivory in wood, and Tongan war clubs were treasured items in the neighboring archipelago of Fiji.
Close-up of the 1622 Map of the Pacific by Hessel Gerritsz showing among others Goede hoop Elt (Niuafo'ou, Cocos Eylandt and Verraders eylandt (Niuatoputapu). It is one of the earliest maps where those island are drawn. Cook's map of 1777. In the 15th century and again in the 17th, civil war erupted.