<span>11,000 British troops and some 1,000 Loyalists departed Boston by ship on March 17, sailing to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Some reasons were that Native Hawaiians were against U.S. annexation, and the controversy of how US marines used force against the Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (held her at gunpoint) and also the fact that President Grover Cleveland himself was against annexation.