Battle of Backbone Mountain

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DescriptionBayard enforces neutrality in Samoa.jpg	English: Text: "The Samoan Situation "As surrendered by Secretary Bayard to His Successor, March 4, 1889." U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard points a rifle towards his successor, James Gillespie Blaine, who is climbing over the fence of "neutrality." During this time, Germany was expanding into Samoa, and the United States was trying to counter this expansion. From the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uhmlibrary/8274363782/
Date	10 March 2013, 20:52:29
Source	http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1889-04-02/ed-1/seq-1/ Chronicling America
Author	The Hawaiian Gazette (newspaper), April 2, 1889, Image 1

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