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What if Captain James Cook and his other marines would have taken Hawaii by force instead of kidnapping Kalaniʻōpuʻu as a ransom for his stolen longboat? Would Hawaii be grouped together with some of the other Micronesian Islands and would it still be a British colony to this day?