The Hule Fortress was a stronghold in

Nukunuku Nukunuku is a Administrative divisions of Tonga, district of Tongatapu division, Tonga. References

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on the island of Tongatapu in Tonga. Its capture in January 1837 during a religious war saw the massacre of all three hundred inhabitants. The fortress was owned by Tu'ivakano, the chief of Nukunuku, who had accepted Christianity. When Tu'ivakano was forced to flee by his sub-chiefs, he appealed to

Aleamotuʻa Aleamotua (birth date unknown, died 18 November 1845) (addressed as Tupou when he became Tu'i Kanokupolu, then baptised as Siosaia (Josiah) Tupou and later known as Tupou 'i Fale Tui Papai, after the name of the area in which he was buried) was th ...

and

Taufa'ahau George Tupou I (4 December 1797 – 18 February 1893), originally known as Tāufaʻāhau I, was the first king of modern Tonga. He adopted the name Siaosi (originally Jiaoji), the Tongan equivalent of '' George'', after King George III of t ...

for assistance. On January 25 1837 Taufa'ahau's forces surrounded the fortress. When an invitation to surrender was rejected, they stormed it, massacring the inhabitants. The massacre was viewed by missionaries as divine judgement on heathens.

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