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The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving. The Amboyna massacre [1] (also known as the Amboyna trial) [2] was the 1623 torture and execution on Ambon Island (present-day Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia) of twenty-one men, including ten in the service of the English East India Company, as well as Japanese and Portuguese traders and a Portuguese man, [3 ...
News of the massacre reached England in June 1624 aboard the Texel. [4] The incident became known as the 'Amboyna massacre' and remained a source of tension between the English and Dutch until late in the 17th century.
Decades later, Oliver Cromwell used embellished versions of this event, dubbed the "Amboyna massacre", as one of the pretexts to start both the First Anglo-Dutch War (in 1652) and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (in 1665), [6] while John Dryden produced his tragedy Amboyna; or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants on request of one of ...
1740 Batavia massacre; A. Amboyna massacre; B. Banda massacre; D. Dutch conquest of the Banda Islands; L. Lamey Island Massacre This page was last edited on 14 ...
Diplomatic agreements and co-operation between the Dutch and the English over the spice trade ended with the Amboyna massacre where ten Englishmen were tortured and killed for conspiracy against the Dutch government, following which the English withdrew from their Indonesian activities (except in Banten). [7]
Amboyna massacre This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 07:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
An early case in which charges of judicial murder were raised was the Amboyna massacre in 1623, which caused a legal dispute between the English and Dutch governments over the conduct of a court in the Dutch East Indies that had ordered the execution of ten English men accused of treason. The dispute centered around differing interpretations of ...
1623: In a notorious but disputed incident, known as the 'Amboyna massacre', ten English and ten Japanese traders are arrested, tried and beheaded for conspiracy against the Dutch Government. [5] The English quietly withdraw from most of their Indonesian activities (except trading in Bantam) and focus on other Asian interests.