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1344:) were sentenced to death by a court consisting of the governor and Council of the VOC at Amboina. However, four of the English and two of the Japanese condemned were subsequently pardoned. Consequently, ten Englishmen, nine Japanese and one Portuguese (the latter being employees of the VOC), were executed. On 9 March 1623 they were beheaded, and the head of the English captain, Gabriel Towerson, was impaled on a pole for all to see. The incident ended any hope of Anglo-Dutch cooperation in the area, a goal that both governments had been pursuing for several years, and marked the beginning of Dutch ascendancy in the Indies. 1364:, the version of events as he presented it also caused much anger at the VOC in Dutch government circles. However, the VOC soon presented its version of events which contradicted the English version in essential respects. The Dutch States General proposed a joint Anglo-Dutch commission of inquiry to establish the facts, but the suggestion was rejected by the English as too time-consuming. The Dutch did not want to execute the culprits of the torture and executions summarily as the English wished, so the States General commissioned an inquiry by 107: 1521: 1097: 1184: 1328:, as a member of the conspiracy. Subsequently, Towerson and the other English personnel in Amboyna and adjacent islands were arrested and questioned. In most, but not all cases, torture was used during the questioning. Torture consisted of having water poured over the head, around which a cloth was draped, bringing the interrogated repeatedly close to suffocation (this is today called 1415: 1294:
employees of both companies in the places it administered. Contrarily, the English maintained, on the basis of the arbitration-article 30 of the treaty, that only the Council of Defence would have jurisdiction over employees of the "other" company. This proved to be an important difference of opinion in the ensuing events.
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Gabriel Towerson, agent of the EIC at Amboina; Samuel Colson, factor at Hitto; Emanuel Thompson, assistant at Amboina; Tymothy Johnson, assistant at Amboina; John Wetherall, factor at Cambello; John Clarke, assistant at Hitto; William Griggs, factor at Larica; John Fardo, steward of the English house
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that was to govern the merchants of both companies; most important, those merchants were now to share trading posts peacefully, though each company was to retain and police the posts it had occupied. The Dutch interpreted this latter provision to mean that each company had legal jurisdiction over the
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that caused England's entry into that war. The play embellishes the affair by attributing the animus of Governor Van Speult against Gabriel Towerson to an amorous rivalry between the (fictitious) son of the governor and Towerson over an indigenous princess. After the son rapes the princess, Towerson
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Despite the treaty, relations between the two companies remained tense. Both parties developed numerous grievances against each other including bad faith, non-performance of treaty-obligations, and "underhand" attempts to undercut each other in the relations with the indigenous rulers with whom they
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The trial progressed slowly because the court of inquiry wished to cross-examine the English witnesses. The English government balked at this demand because it felt it could not compel the witnesses to travel to the Republic. Besides, as the English based their case on the incompetence of the court
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The East India Company was unhappy with the outcome, and in 1632 its directors published an exhaustive brochure, comprising all the relevant papers, with extensive comments and rebuttals of the Dutch position. The Dutch had already sought to influence public opinion with an anonymous pamphlet,
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and the Council of Defence about the Amboyna affair, which they said was a false accusation based upon a fantasy and that the confessions had been obtained only by severe torture. When they were unable to obtain redress in Batavia, they traveled to England, accompanied by the English factor at
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in the employ of the VOC) was caught in the act of spying on the defenses of the fortress Victoria. When questioned under torture the soldier confessed to a conspiracy with other Japanese mercenaries to seize the fortress and assassinate the governor. He also implicated the head of the English
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The old spelling for the name Amboina/Ambon is used, because "Amboyna massacre" is a common expression in the English language. For that reason the word "massacre" is retained, though the incident was not a massacre in the usual sense of the
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with the Portuguese crown from 1580 to 1640). In 1598 the king of Spain embargoed Dutch trade with Portugal, and so the Dutch went looking for spices themselves in the areas that had been apportioned to Portugal under the
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Hiheso, Tsiosa, Suisa, all from Firando; Stanley Migiel, Pedro Congie, Thome Corea, all from Nangasacque; Quiondayo of Coraets; Isabinda of Tsoucketgo; Zanchoe of Fisien; all spellings as rendered in State Papers, No.
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Batavia. Their story caused an uproar in England. The directors of the EIC asked that the English government demand reparations from the VOC and exemplary punishment of the Amboina judges from the Dutch government.
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As a result, the Dutch at Amboyna became suspicious of the English traders that shared the trading post with them. These vague suspicions became concrete when in February 1623 one of the Japanese mercenary soldiers
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in London in 1619 creating cooperation in the East Indies. The market in spices was divided between them in a fixed proportion of two to one (both companies having legal monopolies in their home markets); a
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was established which ordered that reparations be paid by the VOC to the heirs of the English victims of the massacre. Towerson's heirs and others received £3,615 and the EIC £85,000 from the VOC.
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A number of the factors from the adjacent islands(Powle, Ladbrooke, Ramsey, and Sadler) had unshakeable "alibis" and were therefore left in peace; State Papers, No. 499I
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The East India Company brochure contained the gruesome details of the tortures, as related in its original "Relation". The massacre was used as casus belli for the
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from the highest courts in the Dutch republic to investigate the matter. The Amboyna judges were recalled from the East-Indies and put under house arrest.
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in 1619, which resulted in a naval engagement between the English and the Dutch, and caused the Dutch to temporarily evacuate Java;Jourdain, pp. lxix–lxxi
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of other European countries by force of arms. This especially caused strife with the English East India Company while the actions of the interloper Sir
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in 1632 for approval (as agreed beforehand by the two governments). It was rejected, but the accused judges were released by the Dutch authorities.
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or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants", apparently at the behest of his patron who had been one of the chief negotiators of the
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in 1624. At the time, ambassador Carleton had procured its suppression as a "libel" by the States General. However, an English minister in
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In the summer of 1623, the Englishmen who had been pardoned and acquitted sailed to Batavia and complained to the Dutch governor-general
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Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
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incensed the Dutch. Unavoidably, the national governments got involved, and this threatened the congenial relations between
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After the Amboyna Massacre, the English reduced their interest in the East Indies and focused their attention on the
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to try employees of the EIC (according to the English interpretation of the Treaty of Defence), the executions were
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The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608–1617, Describing His Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago
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King James I and the Netherlands States General caused the two warring companies to conclude a
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A Reply to the Remonstrance of the Bewinthebbers or Directors of the Dutch East-India Company
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Japanese mercenaries were also in the service of the Portuguese and the Siamese kings; see
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kills the son in a duel. The governor then takes his revenge in the form of the massacre.
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and remained a source of tension between the two nations until late in the 17th century.
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The Dutch and English enclaves at Amboyna (top) and Banda-Neira (bottom). 1655 engraving.
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Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series ...: Preserved in the Public Record Office ...
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Under Roman Dutch Law, as under other continental European systems of law, based on the
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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan – 1622–1624, Volume 4
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Collins, Beaumont, Webber and Sherrocke; Soysimo en Sacoute; State Papers, No. 499I
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at Amboina; Abel Price, surgeon; and Robert Browne, tailor; State Papers, No. 499I
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Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series ...: East Indies, China and Japan, 1513
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The brochure and its allegations also played a role at the start of the
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How one man's courage changed the course of history
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refers to the massacre in Book 3, Chapter 11 of Jonathan Swift's novel
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The English witnesses traveled to the Dutch republic in 1630 with Sir
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Innocence abroad: The Dutch imagination and the New World, 1570–1670
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Records of the special committee of judges on the Amboyna Massacre (
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Torture of the English by the Dutch according to the English account
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Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië
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History of East India Company by Hourly History ,page number: 8.
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The English established their trading outpost on the island of
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pretends to be a "Hollander" and boards a Dutch ship named the
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ending this war appeared to have finally settled the matter.
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illegal in the English view and, therefore, constituted a
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Massacres committed by the Dutch East India Company
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Ambon Island
Ambon, Maluku
Indonesia
East India Company
Dutch East India Company
treason
England
United Provinces
spice trade
a series
History of Indonesia

Timeline
Prehistory
Paleolithic
Java Man
Flores Man
Neolithic
Toba catastrophe
Buni culture
Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms
Kutai Kingdom
Tarumanagara Kingdom
Kantoli
Kalingga Kingdom
Melayu Kingdom
Srivijaya Empire
Shailendra Dynasty
Mataram Kingdom

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