for future operations in the area. On April 13, the British frontline was extended just south of Vailele, and that day the Matafaans attacked, but were repulsed. Another expedition later fought again within Vailele. The rebels won again when they withstood a British-led attack on the two forts. The engagements occurred near the battlefield where Samoan rebels had defeated German troops in 1889 during the first civil war on the island. A statue of Ensign John R. Monaghan was erected in Spokane, Washington to commemorate the young officer's bravery. A second battle in Apia took place on 25 April, when a small force of Samoans attacked a patrol of U.S. Marines, but were driven off without inflicting any casualties. The war eventually resulted, via the Tripartite Convention of 1899, in the partition of the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa. See also First Samoan Civil War Samoan crisis Mata'afa Iosefo Malietoa Tanumafili I German Samoa Siege of Apia Battle of Vailele Second Battle of Apia Gallery References Samoan, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War Samoa, Second Civil War 1898 in Samoa 1899 in Samoa 1898 in American Samoa 1899 in American Samoa 1898 in the German colonial empire 1899 in the German colonial empire Samoa, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War Samoan, Second Civil War de:Konflikt um Samoa