In 1893, the island nation of Hawaii, with support of plantation owners and missionaries from the United States, was invaded by the United States. In doing so, a treaty was being broken between the United States and the Hawaiian government. It also broke an international law, which forbids acts of aggression. Just five years later, with President Cleveland's disapproval, Congress passed the "Newland Resolution" which claimed Hawaii as a United States territory. (Annexation) All this happened in little over a century after it was discovered.
             It was 1768, and the Master's Mate, James Cook of England, was given the command of captain of two ships that would carry astronomers to Tahiti so they could look at Venus cross paths with the sun. This was the first of three major trips Cook takes that will make him one of the worlds leading explorers of his time.
             It was on his third expedition where he discovered something that no other western man had seen before. His goal had been to head north towards the artic and look for a passage from the North Pacific to the North Atlantic, a "Northwest Passage." Heading north he discovered many islands but on January 19, 1777, he discovered one that would become Hawaii.
             It was when they sighted many birds; birds that were only found near tropical islands that he realized how close he could be. Captain Cook wrote down in his journal, "All these are looked upon signs of vicinity of land. However, we discovered none till daybreak, on the morning of the 18th when an island made its appearance, bearing northeast by east; and soon after, we saw more land, bearing north, and entirely detached from the former. On the 19th, at sunrise, the island first seen bore east, several leagues distant. This being directly to windward, which prevented our getting near it, I stood for the other, which we could reach; and not long after, discovered a third islan...