Atlas Obscura:

The simple story of the islands and their people—thrust onto the world stage because they sat on a valuable natural resource, then wholly eradicated by the unstoppable force of European colonization—is a staple of Did You Know articles on Manhattan and nutmeg.

But this simple version of the story gets quite a bit wrong, and the full account is astounding.

This is one of those, “So – you think you know history, do you?” stories I love reading about.