Samoan crisis
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The Samoan crisis was a standoff between the United States, the German Empire, and the British Empire from 1887 to 1889 over control of the Samoan Islands during the First Samoan Civil War.
SMS Adler, knocked over on the beach, 1889.
SMS Adler, view of her deck, 1889.
The wreck of SMS Adler, circa 1938
The wreck of USS Nipsic′
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.
German, British, and American warships in Apia harbour, 1899
Postcard celebrating the transfer to German control