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    The Occupation of Samoa was the takeover – and subsequent administration – of the Pacific colony of German Samoa by New Zealand during World War I. It...
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    German Samoa (German: Deutsch-Samoa; Samoan: Siamani-Sāmoa) was a German protectorate from 1900 to 1920, consisting of the islands of Upolu, Savai'i,...
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    Territory of Western Samoa was the civil administration of Western Samoa by New Zealand between 1920 and Samoan independence in 1962. In 1914, German Samoa was...
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    the German Colonies of Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory, German Samoa, and German New Guinea. Following the occupation of German Samoa, the HMAS Melbourne...
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    I to seize and destroy the German wireless station in German Samoa in the south-west Pacific. Britain required the German wireless installations to be...
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    Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (category Ad hoc units and formations of Australia)
    AN&MEF provided occupation forces for the duration of the war. New Zealand provided a similar force for the occupation of German Samoa. The Australian...
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    and Germany agreed to partition the islands into German Samoa and American Samoa. After World War I, New Zealand took over the administration of what...
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    region. New Zealand provided a similar force for the occupation of German Samoa. Ultimately the German colonial government was forced to surrender after...
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    Apia (redirect from Capital of Samoa)
    Germany as German Samoa from 1900 to 1914, with Apia as its capital.[citation needed] In August 1914, the Occupation of German Samoa by an expeditionary...
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  • Herbert Morley (explorer) (category Year of birth missing)
    before the Occupation of German Samoa operation), Herbert wrote a letter to his father, therein he tells of six German warships docking in Samoa; "probably…...
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    HMAS Psyche (category Pelorus-class cruisers of the Royal Navy)
    Zealand waters and involvement in the Occupation of German Samoa, Psyche was paid off in 1915. At the recommendation of the Australian government, the ship...
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    Erich Schultz-Ewerth (category German people in German Samoa)
    1870 – 25 June 1935) was a German jurist, ethnologist and colonial administrator, who served as the last governor of German Samoa. Erich Schultz-Ewerth entered...
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  • Battle of Namacurra Battle of Lioma Swedish intervention in Persia Siege of Tsingtao Occupation of German Samoa Battle of Bita Paka Siege of Toma Central...
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  • Zealand military officer) (1883–1946), commanding officer in the Occupation of German Samoa Dave Gibbs (musician) (born 1965), American singer-songwriter...
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    partition of the Samoan Islands into American Samoa and German Samoa. The Asian and Pacific Theatre of World War I was a conquest of German colonial possession...
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  • of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey 2 August 1914, Yale University "Occupation of Luxembourg - International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)"...
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    offensives in Oceania was the Occupation of German Samoa in August 1914 by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after...
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    Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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    Ireland (German: Neu-Mecklenburg). Together with the other Western Pacific German islands, excluding German Samoa, they formed the Imperial German Pacific...
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    in the 19th century, Guam was ceded to America by Spain in 1899 and German-Samoa changed hands to become a New Zealand colony during the First World War...
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    months. Prior to the First World War, Samoa was a colony of the German Empire. German colonies used the flag of the Imperial Colonial Office, a black-white-red...
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  • currency of Western Samoa between 1914 and 1967. It was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. In 1914, following the New Zealand occupation of German...
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    first action of New Zealand in the war, following the sailing of a Samoa Expeditionary Force on 15 August, the Occupation of German Samoa soon took place...
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    total: 1 From 1900 Samoa had been a German colony, and even after the occupation by New Zealand in 1914 it maintained the German practice of driving on the...
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    Robert Logan (politician) (category Administrators of Western Samoa Trust Territory)
    dispatched from New Zealand to occupy the island of Samoa, a territory of the German Empire at the time. Samoa was easily occupied on 29 August 1914 and Logan...
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    seize German Samoa. On 29 August, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) landed in German Samoa unopposed, beginning the New Zealand occupation of German...
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    until the end of World War I on 11 November 1918, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was under full occupation by the German Empire. The German government justified...
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    Politics of Samoa takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic state whereby the Prime Minister of Samoa is the head of government...
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  • Edward Smyrk (category New Zealand military personnel of World War I)
    Bay in 1920. Smyrk served as a sapper with the Samoa Expeditionary Force in the Occupation of German Samoa in 1914. He returned to New Zealand in March...
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