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Manifest Destiny Moves into the Pacific
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Content: Hawaii with it's excellent port of Pearl Harbor was a valuable intermediate station for the United States. In 1887 a group of American businessmen, missionaries, and planters calling themselves the Hawaiian League forced King Kalakaua to grant the United States exclusive rights to Pearl Harbor and permission to construct a coaling station and repair facility inside the harbor. They forced King Kalakaua to accept a new constitution - which he called the Bayonet Constitution . When a new Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani moved to reverse these actions, the United States worked with Hawaiian Sugar Plantation owners to over throw her. The American Contribution to the coupe which forced the Queen to abdicate was a Marine Landing party off the protected Cruiser Boston. The Marine landing party surrounded the Royal Palace capturing the Queen, as Plantation Owners who were ethnically American took control of the government in a bloodless coupe. January 17, 1893. Protected Cruiser USS Boston in 1891
. The ship's landing force on duty at the Arlington Hotel, Honolulu, at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893. Lieutenant Lucien Young, USN, commanded the detachment, and is presumably the officer at right.