Hegemon: How the Mighty King Kamehameha Seized Hawaii
Kamehameha unified the Hawaiian islands and governed as their first King. Key Point: Using a prophesy, gunpowder, and ruthlessness Kamehameha made his place in the history books. Here is how he ended Haiwaii's fractured political period. In July 1782, the island kingdom of Hawaii was fractured into three groups, beginning a power struggle that would last for the next 10 years. Similar in kind to the territorial disputes between England and France in the Hundred Years’ War, the sovereignty of the islands separated by the deep-blue waters of the Pacific Ocean had been disputed for generation...