User:KAVEBEAR/La guerre franco-tahitienne
| Franco-Tahitian War | |||||||
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 Capture of Fort Fautahua in Tahiti, depicted by Sébastien Charles Giraud | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 FranceTahitian allies |
 Tahiti Huahine Raiatea Bora Bora and Tahaa | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Armand Joseph Bruat, Louis Adolphe Bonard |
Pōmare IV, Teriitaria II, Tamatoa??, Tapoa II | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ? | ? | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 160 or more killed and wounded | 500 or more killed and wounded | ||||||
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The Franco-Tahitian War or French-Tahitian War, often referred to in France as the guerre franco-tahitienne (1844–1847), was a conflict between the Kingdom of the French and the Kingdom of Tahiti. Tahiti was aided by its allies in the Leeward Islands including Huahine, Bora Bora, and Raiatea, and European settlers including the Protestant missionaries. France was assisted by factions of Tahitian chiefs including Tati, chief of the Teva clan. There was extreme international pressure from Great Britain who had its stakes in the Pacific and considered the Society Islands under their jurisdiction. This episode in history would seal the fate of the Tahitians people and highlight the success of French colonial expansion in Polynesia.
Events[edit]
Bora Bora, ruled by Pomare's first husband King Tapoa II, stayed out of the conflict.[1]
"On March 2, Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, was declared by D'Aubigny, a French officer temporarily in charge, to be "in a state of siege".[2]
The war began in March 21, 1844 at Taravao and fighting officially ended on December 18, 1846 with the capture of Fort of Fautaua.[3]
Tahitians in the Punaauia, Faaa and Teva I Uta districts rebelled against the French.[3]
Queen Pomare IV flees to Raiatea.
- 1838: French gunboat demands compensation
- 1839: Britain rejects Tahitian request for a protectorate
- 1842: French protectorate is declared over Tahiti and the Marquesas
- 1842: Herman Melville visits French Polynesia
- 1844: Mormon missionaries arrive on Tubuai, Austral Islands
- 1844-1847: Tahitian War of Independence
- 1847: Queen Pomare accepts French protectorate
Battle[edit]
- 21 March 1844, near Afaahiti
- 17 April 1844, Battle of Mahaena
- 25 May 1846, Haapaianoo ou Papenoo, south of port town of Faaripo and North of Mt. Orohena
- 29 June 1844, ?
- ??, Battle around Mt. Taharaa Vallee de Tuaruru, Ahonu, Tapahi, Haapape ou Mahina
- 20-22 March 1846, Nanuu Tarahoi, Pare, Valley of Fautaua, around Papeete
- 29 June 1844, Faaa
- 12 April 1847, Taputapuatea, Pte. Punaauia
- ?, Battle around Manotahi, Te ara o Tahiti, in district of Punaauia
- Battle of Punaruu
- Destruction of Fare
- Battle of Maeva
References[edit]
- ^ José Garanger, Claude Robineau (1977). Bora-Bora. Nouvelles Editions Latines. p. 14.
- ^ Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916). "The Pritchard Affair (1844)". International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of International Law as Practised by Independent States. Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 22–26.
- ^ a b http://nisdv.bravehost.com/je_accuse.html
- Christian Gleizal. "Les évènements marquants". Histoire de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française.
- Christian Gleizal. "La guerre franco-tahitienne (1844-1846)". Histoire de l'Assemblée de la Polynésie française.
- [1]
- tahitiheritage
- Richard A. Greer (1971). "Trouble in Tahiti: S. R. Blackler's Despatches on the French Seizure of the Society Islands ". Hawaiian Journal of History. 5. Hawaiian Historical Society: 127–151. hdl:10524/536.
- Newbury, Colin (1986). "Commissioner George Brown at Tahiti, 1843 ". Hawaiian Journal of History. 20. Hawaiian Historical Society: 83–104. hdl:10524/470.
- Matt K. Matsuda (2005). "Society Islands: Tahitian Archives". Empire of Love: Histories of France and the Pacific. Oxford University Press. pp. 91–112. ISBN 0195162943.
- John Garrett (1982). "Ave Maria or Hallelujah?". To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania. Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, Fiji. pp. 88–96. ISBN 2-8254-0692-9.
- George Pritchard, Pomare (queen of Tahiti.) (1878). Queen Pomare and Her Country.
- Lucett, Edward (1851). Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849: with a glance at California. Vol. 1. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1843). Correspondence Relative to the Proceedings of the French at Tahiti, 1825–1843. Presented to the House of Commons, by the Queen's Command, in pursuance of their Address to Her Majesty, of the 18th of May, 1843. London: T. R. Harrison. pp. 265–292.