Regional1799 – 1852 · 53 years
Tongan Civil War
Tongatapu · Haʻapai · Vavaʻu · Tonga
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
A roughly fifty-year period of succession warfare that began with the murder of the Tuʻi Kanokupolu Tukuʻaho in 1799 and was worsened by the introduction of firearms. The wars ended with the triumph of Tāufaʻāhau, who unified Tonga and ruled as King George Tupou I from 1845.
Belligerents2
- Tuʻi Kanokupolu and rival chiefly lines
- Tāufaʻāhau (George Tupou I) and allies
Sources
- Wikipedia: History of Tonga
- Campbell, Island Kingdom: Tonga Ancient and Modern
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Tongan Civil War (1799 – 1852). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/tongan-civil-war · Sources & methodology