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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.
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.
Thomas Matulessy (8 June 1783 – 16 December 1817), also known as Kapitan Pattimura or simply Pattimura, was a famous Ambonese soldier who became a symbol of both the Maluku and Indonesian struggle for independence, praised by President Sukarno and declared a national hero by President Suharto.
While it has generated large tsunamigenic earthquakes in the past such as that in 1899 and 1629, the fault is situated too far from Ambon to have caused huge tsunami run-ups. [ 1 ] Since the tsunami from the earthquake had an extreme run-up height of at least 100 metres (330 ft) observed locally on the northern shore of Ambon, researchers have ...
The Sultan also took the war to Ambon where the Portuguese had constructed a fortress in 1569. In 1570 a Ternate fleet of six large korakoras under the leadership of Kapita Kassingu invaded Ambon. [31] Although Kassingu fell in a sea battle at Cape Mamala, [32] the Ternatans managed to subjugate Hoamoal (in Ceram), Ambelau, Manipa, Kelang and ...
Rai knew about the plan and commanded the battalion to disband, with 95 men remaining with him to commit puputan in battle. These remaining troops moved to Banjar Kelaci, Marga. On the morning of 20 November 1946, KNIL troops arrived before sunrise to block the remnant of Rai's troops as planned. The battle began at 8:00 AM.
Ambon Island, an island in Indonesia Ambon, Maluku, a city on Ambon Island, the capital of Maluku province; Governorate of Ambon, a colony of the Dutch East India Company from 1605 to 1796; Ambon, Morbihan, a commune in Morbihan, France