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Monday, February 4, 2019

Pearl Harbor :: American History World War 2 WWII

Of the years following the arrival of master copy James Cook, pull together Harbor was not considered a suitable harbor due to shoal water. The interest of the United States Government in the Sandwich Islands followed the adventurous voyages of its whaling and transaction ships in the Pacific. As early as 1820, an Agent of the United States for trading and Seamen was appointed to look after American business in the porthole of capital of Hawaii. With the cementing of commercial ties with the American continent, another factor to be considered was the endeavors of the American display panel of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This was particularly true when the American missionaries and their families became an integral part of the Hawaiian body politic.With the exception of a few episodes, American prestige tended to sum up in the islands. One of these was the affair of Lieutenant John Percival in 1826 which illustrates both(prenominal) of the high-handed tactics of that time. When his ship, USS Dolphin, had arrived in Honolulu, an ordinance had just been passed, inspired by the missionaries, placing restrictions on the sale of alcoholic liquors and the taking of women aboard vessels in the Honolulu Harbor. Lieutenant Percival and members of his crew felt that the new vice laws were unfair and with more than than a mere threat of force had them rescinded. This act, it must be said, was subsequent renounced by the United States and resulted in the sending of an envoy to King Kauikeaouli. When Captain Thomas ap Catesby Jones arrived, in command of the USS Peacock, he was the first naval ships officer to visit Hawaii armed with instructions to discuss international personal matters with the Hawaii King and Chiefs, and to conclude a trade treaty.In bitterness of the Percival incident, American influence in the islands was steadily increasing. Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, many American warships visited Honolulu. In most cases the commanding offic ers carried letters with them from the U.S. Government all empathetically friendly toward the Hawaiian sovereign and, as a rule, giving advice concerning the admit of governmental affairs and of the relations of the island nation with foreign powers. In 1841, the periodic periodical, Polynesian, printed in Honolulu, advocated editorially that the U.S. establish a naval base in Hawaii. Its pretext was the protection of the interest of American citizens engaged in the whaling industry. The pro-British Hawaiian minister, R.C. Wyllie, remarked in 1840 that . .

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