TALES OF TIME: John Monaghan a Hero or Foe? — thecoconet.tv - The world's largest hub of Pacific Island content.
5,408 miles away from Samoa on the other side of the world lies a statue of military officer John R. Monaghan. A huge monument to honour a man born in Washington and killed in Vailele. Monaghan was sent to Samoa during the second Samoa Civil War in 1899. What history books will tell you was a war of “Samoans against Samoans”, but what locals would remind you was a was a colonial tug of war to see who could annex these Pacific islands.
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