The 1895 Wilcox rebellion, or the Counter-Revolution of 1895 was a brief war from January 6 to January 9, 1895, that consisted of three battles on the island of Oʻahu, Republic of Hawaii. It was the last major military operation by royalists who opposed the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
National Guardsmen atop ʻIolani Palace during the Battle of Kamoiliili.
Diamond Head and Waikīkī beach,1890
Honolulu
National Guard Company F commanded by Captain C. W. Zeiler shortly after the Battle of Mānoa
The Republic of Hawaii was a short-lived one-party state in Hawaiʻi between July 4, 1894, when the Provisional Government of Hawaii had ended, and August 12, 1898, when it became annexed by the United States as an unincorporated and unorganized territory. In 1893, the Committee of Public Safety overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani, the monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, after she rejected the 1887 Bayonet Constitution. The Committee of Public Safety intended for Hawaii to be annexed by the United States; however, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat opposed to imperialism, refused. A new constitution was subsequently written while Hawaii was being prepared for annexation.
The founding members of the Republic
Troops of the Republic of Hawaii after the counter-revolution
Newspaper illustration of Queen Liliuokalani's public trial by a military tribunal in 1895 in the former throne room of the Iolani Palace
An anti-annexation meeting at Hilo, 1897