High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Schaffer affair was an incident between 1815-1817 when Georg Anton Schaffer attempted to take the Hawaiian Islands for Russia. In 1815 Schaffer sailed to Hawaii to retrieve the Company goods seized by Kaumualii, chief of Kauai island. A simple mission led by an inexperienced but ambitious physician unfolded into a major blunder for the Company. Kaumualii, who sought outside help in his domestic rivalry with king Kamehameha, invited Schaffer to his island and manipulated him into believing that the Russian-American Company could easily take over and colonize Hawaii. Schaffer, "losing all touch with reality", planned a full-blown naval assault of the rest of Hawaiian islands and sought support for his "conquest" in Saint Petersburg. Mounting resistance of Native Hawaiians and American traders forced Schaffer to admit defeat and leave Hawaii in July 1817, before his triumphant reports from Kauai reached the Russian court. The Company...

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