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Battle of Kepaniwai

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ʻĪao Valley · Maui · Hawaiian Islands

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Fought in 1790 in the ʻĪao Valley of Maui, where Kamehameha I's forces, using cannon, decisively defeated the Maui army of Kalanikūpule. The slaughter was so great that the stream was said to be dammed with bodies, giving the battle its name ('the damming of the waters').

Belligerents2

Kamehameha's forces (Hawaiʻi)
Maui forces (Kalanikūpule)

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of Hawaiian Unification

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Kepaniwai
Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom vol. 1
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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