after the defeat of gaza, the second girey asked the russian tsar fyodor ivanovich to renew his friendshippromised russia to serve behind the elephant from the ottoman turks, but then khan again tried to attack and only 3 years later, with the approval of the ottoman sultan , he concluded a peace treaty with the russian state on july 4, 1898, the us congress passed a resolution authorizing the annexation of the hawaiian islands, it was signed by president william mckinley. hawaii was discovered for europeans by the english navigator james cook at the end of the 18th century. polynesians lived there at the beginning of the 19th century, a single kingdom was formed on the islands. the united states became interested in hawaii because of sugar cane, they did not overthrow the coup and in 1893 staged the overthrow of the last queen. for several years, there formally existed the republic of the gai, which the united states later successfully annexed in 1959. hawaii formally remained in the status of a self-governing territory, and then officially became the fiftieth us state annexed so far. man