Frank Solomon
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Frank Solomon was an American-born New Zealand rugby union footballer. He has played national provincial rugby for Auckland and international rugby for the All Blacks. Considered a Pacific pioneer in
Solomon (left) powers through the Australian defence during the inaugural Bledisloe Cup match at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1932
Tripartite Convention
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The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory.
Frank Solomon
…after 'Eastern Samoa' (present day American Samoa) became a U.S. Territory, which divided Samoa into two administrative territories according to the Tripartite Convention. The governor of American Samoa at the time of Solomon's birth was Charles Moore from Decatur, Illinois. While the United States occupied the eastern…
German, British, and American warships in Apia harbour, 1899
Postcard celebrating the transfer to German control