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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 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.
The Capture of Amboina was the capture of the Portuguese fort Nossa Senhora de Anunciada in Amboina by the Dutch East India Company, under admiral Steven van der Hagen.The Portuguese governor of Ambon Gaspar de Melo surrendered the fort on 22 February 1605 to the Dutch forces, the fort was renamed to fort Victoria, and Ambon was placed under Dutch Control.
Severe weather jolted parts of Texas and Louisiana on Thursday and Thursday night, spinning up multiple tornadoes to kick off a stretch of stormy weather for the Gulf Coast states. Two tornadoes ...
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 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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Spring Hill was an unincorporated community in Gregg County, Texas, United States. [1] Founded sometime before 1900, the town became the site of many oil field camps during the oil boom of the 1930s. Most oil workers would leave by the end of the decade.