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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 ...
Amboyna Cay, also known as Vietnamese: Đảo An Bang; Malay: Pulau Amboyna Kecil; Datu Kalantiaw Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Datu Kalantiaw, lit. 'Island of Datu Kalantiaw'); Mandarin Chinese: 安波沙洲; pinyin: Ānbō Shāzhōu, [1] and other names, is an island of the Spratly Islands group in the South China Sea located just outside (SW) of the southwest of Dangerous Ground. [2]
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.
In 1888 the Central Borneo Company were granted a lease to work guano "on Sprattly island and Amboyna Cay" [60] During the Second World War troops from French Indochina and Japan were in occupation. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] [ 63 ] In 1956 Filipino adventurer Tomás Cloma Sr. decided to "claim" a part of Spratly islands as his own, naming it the " Free ...
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 ...
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Amboyna Cay, An Bang Island; Bombay Castle, Ba Ke; Collins Reef, Co Lin Reef; Cornwallis South Reef, Nui Le Reef; Ladd Reef, Lat Reef; Namyit Island, Nam Yet Island; Sand Cay, Son Ca Island; Sin Cowe Island, Sinh Ton Island; Southwest Cay, Song Tu Tay Island; Spratly Island, Truong Sa Island
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