Replying to a message of Adam Flinton to Alan Cairns:

 AF> Ah what joy people of the commonwealth will have making that point to
 AF> the US...after all the years of the traffic coming the other
 AF> way....US out of....Puerto Rico....Hawaii....Cuba (last bit
 AF> thereof..)

Hawaii isn't the spoils-of-war type possession taken from somebody else
(primarily Spain).  This country invaded and conquered the recognized
kingdom there (Queen Liliuokalani was the last reigning monarch; deposed in
the 1898 invasion, IIRC she died in 1921 - she is the author of the song
'Aloha Oe').  Seems the queen wanted to raise the rent on the plantations
owned/run by the Dole Pineapple Company and the company objected to the
president, who sent in the Marines.

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