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The Storm That Stopped a Three-Navy War in Samoa
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The Storm That Stopped a Three-Navy War in Samoa

The navies of three great powers sat in a Pacific harbor in 1889, guns loaded, waiting for the order to fire—and then the weather intervened.

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