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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: During the night, the majority of the defenders had taken advantage
of the rain and darkness and stolen from their forts unobserved.
The rallying sign of the Tamaseses had been a white handkerchief.
With the dawn, the de Coetlogons from the English consulate beheld
the ground strewn with these badges discarded; and close by the
house, a belated turncoat was still changing white for red.
Matautu was lost; Tamasese was confined to Mulinuu; and by nine
o'clock two Mataafa villages paraded the streets of Apia, taking
possession. The cost of this respectable success in ammunition
must have been enormous; in life it was but small. Some compute
forty killed on either side, others forty on both, three or four
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