Later called the Bayonet Constitution, it stripped Native Hawaiians of their rights, diminished the monarchy's power, and ceded control to this group of white businessmen.
They did. They leaped over the wall, bayoneted their enemies, smashed skulls with clubbed muskets, and planted the battleflags of the South on Cemetery Ridge.
Hamilton himself halted a retreating infantry brigade and organised a bayonet charge and was badly injured when his horse was shot from underneath him.