LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT HAWAI`I'S ILLEGAL OVERTHROW
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In 1872 the US Government sent its emissary General John Schofield in civilians clothes to O`ahu to study the coastline, waterways, bays and harbors.
In 1881 Secretary of State James Blaine told President Benjamin Harrison that Hawai`i was "of value enough to be taken."
In May 1882 Lorrin Thurston of the secret Annexation Club of Hawai`i met with President Benjamin Harrison requesting assistance with an overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
B.F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy said the president authorized him to say that "if conditions in Hawai`i compel you people to act as you have indicated, and you come to Washington with an annexation proposition, you will find an exceedingly sympathetic administration here."
