The one group of people forgotten are the Hawaiian people. The overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii refers to a coup détat on January 17, 1893, in which anti-monarchical insurgents within the Kingdom of Hawaii, composed largely of United States citizens, engineered the overthrow of its native monarch, Queen Liliuokalani. Hawaii was initially reconstituted as an independent republic, but the ultimate goal of the revolutionaries was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was finally accomplished in 1898. More on the over throwing of the Hawaiian Monarchy by us history/this-day-in-history/americans-overthrow-hawaiian-monarchy
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