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The Formosa Expedition (Chinese: 美國福爾摩沙遠征; pinyin: Měiguó Fú’ěrmóshā Yuǎnzhēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bí-kok Hok-nī-mô͘-sa Oán-cheng), [1] or the Taiwan Expedition of 1867, was a punitive expedition launched by the United States against the Paiwan, an indigenous Taiwanese tribe.
Map of the area drawn by Charles W. Le Gendre [1] showing "Where the Rover's Crew landed" (bottom middle of map).. The Rover Incident (Chinese: 羅妹號事件; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ or Chinese: 羅妹號慘案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Chhám-àn [1]) occurred on 12 March 1867 when the American merchant ship Rover, captained by Joseph Hunt [2] who was accompanied by his ...
Formosa Expedition Henry Haywood Bell (13 April 1808 – 11 January 1868) was an American admiral in the United States Navy . In the American Civil War , he took part in the liberation of New Orleans and the lower Mississippi.
The Japanese punitive expedition to Taiwan in 1874, referred to in Japan as the Taiwan Expedition (Japanese: 台湾出兵, Hepburn: Taiwan Shuppei) and in Taiwan and Mainland China as the Mudan incident (Chinese: 牡丹社事件), was a punitive expedition launched by the Japanese ostensibly in retaliation for the murder of 54 Ryukyuan sailors by Paiwan indigenous peoples near the southwestern ...
Thirty years ago today on September 1, 1985, the 73-year-old Titanic wreckage was finally discovered. The tragedy of the RMS Titanic rocked the world on April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship ...
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The South Carolina-based deep-sea explorer who stumbled upon what he believed to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane in the Pacific Ocean has now confirmed his once-promising discovery was just ...
Flotsam on a beach at Terschelling, Wadden Sea. In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are terms for various types of property lost or abandoned at sea. The words have specific nautical meanings, with legal consequences in the law of admiralty and marine salvage. [1]