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Battle of Mokuʻōhai

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Mokuʻōhai · Kona · Hawaiʻi island

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Fought in 1782 in Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi, this was Kamehameha I's first major victory, in which his rival cousin Kīwalaʻō was killed. The battle left Kamehameha in control of much of the Big Island and launched his campaign of unification.

Belligerents2

Kamehameha's forces
Kīwalaʻō's forces

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of Hawaiian Unification

Sources

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

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