The Second Battle of Apia was the final engagement of the
Second Samoan Civil War
The Second Samoan Civil War. Samoan Taua Lona Lua a Samoa was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, loc ...
, and possibly fought as an attempted act of defiance by the Samoan rebels after being given an ultimatum that would have denied them access to Apia.
Battle
After the third battle of Vailele, the Allies declared that so long as the Mataafans stay out of Apia, they would not take action against them. The following month, on April 25, the Mataafans attacked American troops on patrol outside of Apia, but the rebels were driven off.
[Clowes, pg. 457-459]
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