Nuku Hiva is the largest of the Marquesas islands. If you haven’t heard of it, you probably should have, given that the US once fought a war there.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.