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| Tango01 | 25 Jun 2014 10:28 p.m. PST |
…Kauai, 1817-1853. "One of the most impressive man-made structures on the beautiful "Garden Island" of Kaua'i County, Hawaii's most populated, westernmost island, relating to military history and warfare studies is the Russian constructed (1817) Fort Elizabeth. Its walls and defensive structures still stand today, albeit in ruins, outside of Waimea on the southwestern Kaua'i coast on the eastern banks of the Waimea river mouth overlooking Waimea Bay, directly off what is today the Kaumuali'i Highway. These ancient overgrown red volcanic rocks and ruined outer defenses are all that remain of the Russian Empires attempts to colonize and intervene in the Hawaiian Islands (Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) from c.1815-1817. To understand the importance of Russian influence and the importance of Kaua'i one must look to the decades of fighting inter-Island warfare which had all but come to end following the unification of the Hawaiian islands, save for the island of Kaua'i, into the Kingdom of Hawaii by King Kamehameha I (b.1758-1819) from 1795-1810…"
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| MHoxie | 26 Jun 2014 2:15 a.m. PST |
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| altfritz | 26 Jun 2014 4:40 a.m. PST |
The Argies will back him! ;-P |
| DontFearDareaper | 26 Jun 2014 6:12 a.m. PST |
I visited that site last time I vacationed in Hawaii. The most striking thing to me while looking at the ruins was how small the fort seems to have been. Dave |
Frederick  | 26 Jun 2014 6:54 a.m. PST |
He also wants it fixed up! |
| Sergeant Paper | 26 Jun 2014 9:29 a.m. PST |
It's really small, and the anchorage is murky and unprotected. And having grown up on Kauai I can assure you it really ISN'T "One of the most impressive man-made structures…" on Kauai. It is in much better shape than the OTHER Russian fort on Kauai, though. All that's left of the fort at Hanalei is a ditch and some buried wall footings. |
| SBminisguy | 26 Jun 2014 11:40 a.m. PST |
@MrHoxie, "Putin wants it back." LOL! I was drinking water at the time…I think my PC will survive. |
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