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The Battle of Ambon (30 January – 3 February 1942) occurred on Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), as part of the Japanese offensive on the Dutch colony during World War II. In the face of a combined defense by Dutch and Australian troops, Japanese forces conquered the island and its strategic airfield in several days.
Ambonese Malay or simply Ambonese is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia.It was first brought by traders from Western Indonesia, then developed when the Dutch Empire colonised the Maluku Islands and was used as a tool by missionaries in Eastern Indonesia.
Ambon city was the site of a major Dutch military base that Imperial Japanese forces captured from Allied forces in the World War II Battle of Ambon in 1942. The battle was followed by the summary execution of more than 300 Allied prisoners of war in the Laha massacre. A large Far East prisoner of war camp was situated in the north near Liang.
These soldiers became the backbone of APRMS. After a naval blockade by the Indonesian navy, an invasion of Ambon took place on 28 September 1950. The APRMS fled from the town of Ambon before the invading Indonesian troops had taken up positions in old Dutch fortifications in the hills overlooking the town. From here they waged guerrilla warfare.
A group of men after the institute of the M.P. in a church in Ambon, pre-1943. Ambon belonged to the so-called colonial ethnic group. [ 10 ] They were formed in the 16th to 18th century as a result of the mixing of the indigenous population of Ambon Island and West Seram Regency , the human trade of the Hitu people, and with the immigrants from ...
In the coming years, the British began to cooperate closer with Nuku, dropping the previous non-interference policy with regard to North Maluku. The governor of Ambon, William Farquhar, combined forces with Nuku to lead a series on assaults on Ternate, whose Dutch defenders finally surrendered in June 1801. Immediately afterward, Farquhar ...
The statue to Tiahahu in Ambon Soon after Indonesia's independence , Tiahahu was declared a National Heroine of Indonesia ; [ 3 ] 2 January was designated Martha Christina Tiahahu Day. [ 3 ] On that day, people in Maluku spread flower petals over the Banda Sea in an official ceremony honouring her struggle. [ 3 ]
Corinus Krey and Petrus Wettebossy would be captured for founding the Partai Irian Dalam Republik Indonesia Serikat, (Indonesian: Irian Inside United States of Indonesia Party), in which Indey was the deputy leader. Despite his imprisonment, he was also awarded the Bronze Cross for his wartime service in 1949. [20]