Since 1855 when German businss tradesman arrived in Western Samoa the British influence declined rapidly in just 5 years and by only 15 years many Western Samoans were connected somehow in Samoan-German trade. The British who had brought Christian religion and who had missionary still there did not expect Samoan-German trade to progress as fast as it did and were unprepared for the politics that would play out. In the 1870s the landscape in Europe changed greatly with the German-Prussian invasion of Imperial France and British were losing influence in almost all areas once landed. Wars and Revolution in Europe waged for the next 50 years.
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