Editing Tahiti (section)

=== Tahitian War of independence (1844–47) ===
{{main|Franco-Tahitian War}}
In 1843, the Queen's Protestant advisor, Pritchard, persuaded her to display the Tahitian flag in place of the flag of the Protectorate.<ref>{{cite web |author=Colin Newbury |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_82_1973/Volume_82,_No._1/Resistance_and_collaboration_in_French_Polynesia%3A_the_Tahitian_war%3A_1844-7,_by_Colin_Newbury,_p_5-27/p1 |title=Journal of the Polynesian Society: Resistance And Collaboration In French Polynesia: The Tahitian War: 1844-7, By Colin Newbury, P 5-27 |publisher=Jps.auckland.ac.nz |access-date=24 April 2013 |archive-date=1 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201181343/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_82_1973/Volume_82%2C_No._1/Resistance_and_collaboration_in_French_Polynesia%3A_the_Tahitian_war%3A_1844-7%2C_by_Colin_Newbury%2C_p_5-27/p1 |url-status=live}}</ref> By way of reprisal, Admiral Dupetit-Thouars announced the annexation of the Kingdom of Pōmare on 6 November 1843 and set up the governor [[Armand Joseph Bruat]] there as the chief of the new colony. He threw Pritchard into prison, and later sent him back to Britain. The annexation caused the Queen to be exiled to the Leeward Islands, and after a period of troubles, a real Franco-Tahitian war began in March 1844. News of Tahiti reached Europe in early 1844. The French [[wikt:statesman|statesman]] [[François Guizot]], supported by King [[Louis Philippe I|Louis-Philippe of France]], had denounced annexation of the island.

The war ended in December 1846 in favour of the French. The Queen returned from exile in 1847 and agreed to sign a new covenant, considerably reducing her powers, while increasing those of the commissaire. Thus, the French reigned over the Kingdom of Tahiti. In 1863, they put an end to the British influence and replaced the British Protestant Missions with the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Society of Evangelical Missions of Paris).