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Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra [3] (from Tagalog [4]) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor ...
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 ...
Amboyna captured from the Dutch by a squadron under Sir Edward Tucker Feb 1810 by Richard Vidal. During the campaign the British captured several Dutch vessels. One was the Dutch brig Mandurese which had twelve guns. She was one of three vessels sunk in the inner harbour of Amboyna. However, the British raised her after the island surrendered.
[6] [7] The wood from the narra tree and the Burmese padauk tree (P. macrocarpus) is marketed as amboyna when it has grown in the burl form. [8] The ...
Amboyna or amboina may refer to: Amboyna, a play by John Dryden; Amboyna massacre, in 1623 in Indonesia; Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), of Asia; Amboina king parrot (Alisterus amboinensis), of Indonesia; Amboyna, a moth genus; Amboyna burl of Pterocarpus trees; Ambon Island, sometimes named Amboyna, part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia
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Amboyna is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae. [1] Species. Amboyna diapella Common, 1965; Amboyna furcifera Razowski ...
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