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English: Captain George Charles Beckley, English friend and military adviser of Kamehameha the Great, and first commander of the old Honolulu fort in 1816. He was granted chiefly rank by the Conqueror and married to Chiefess Loaa K. Ahia. His descendants claim for him the designing of the Hawaiian flag. From rare oil painting.
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Source Taylor, Albert Pierce (1922) Under Hawaiian Skies: A Narrative of the Romance, Adventure and History of the Hawaiian Islands, Board of Education of the Hawaiian Kingdom, p. Page 358
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