Major conflict1782 – 1810 · 28 years

Wars of Hawaiian Unification

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Hawaiʻi · Maui · Oʻahu · Kauaʻi · Hawaiian Islands

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

A series of campaigns from the 1780s to 1810 through which Kamehameha I conquered and unified the Hawaiian Islands, aided by European firearms and advisors. Key battles included Mokuʻōhai, Kepaniwai, and Nuʻuanu, with Kauaʻi ceded peacefully by 1810.

Belligerents2

Kamehameha I's forces
Rival Hawaiian chiefdoms

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Mokuʻōhai1782
Battle of Kepaniwai1790
Battle of Nuʻuanu1795

Sources

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

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