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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 ...
List of shipwrecks: 12 January 1899 Ship State Description Forest Hall United Kingdom The barque got in trouble off Porlock, Somerset, England.The Lynmouth Lifeboat Station answered her distress call by taking the lifeboat Louisa (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), pulled by horses and people, overland for 15 miles (24 km) to go to her rescue, climbing 1,423 feet (434 m) during the journey.
‘Debris field’ found near Titanic wreckage Thursday 22 June 2023 16:53 , Ariana Baio The US Coast Guard said a “debris field” was discovered in the search area near the Titanic wreckage on ...
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 ...
The bodies of all 10 people who died in a crash of a Bering Air caravan in Alaska on Thursday have been recovered from the wreckage, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Bering Air Flight 445 ...
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]
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.