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unusual facts about East Indies



Andrea Corsali

Two of Corsali’s letters from the 'east Indies' were published in Florence in 1518, and again in Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Delle navigationi et viaggi (Venice, 1550), along with accounts by other travelers and merchants such as Giovanni da Empoli (1483-1518).

Briton-class corvette

Between them, they were assigned to the China, East Indies, African, North American, and the Pacific Stations.

Dudum siquidem

The bull Aeterni regis of 1481, delivered by Pope Sixtus IV, had confirmed the substance of the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which itself had confirmed Castile in its possession of the Canary Islands and had granted to Portugal all further new lands to be won by Christendom in Africa and the East Indies.

East Caribbean dollar

Queen Anne's proclamation of 1704 introduced the gold standard to the British West Indies, putting the West Indies about two hundred years ahead of the East Indies in this respect.

Franquemont

Descendants of their brothers returned to Europe only several generations later when the East Indies were no longer a colony of the Netherlands and became the Republic of Indonesia.

George Vandeput

On her return to England in 1777, the Asia was refitted and sent out to the East Indies, returning to England again in convoy early in 1781, at which point Vandeput was transferred to the Atlas.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

From September 1856 to April 1857 Stephenson served under Keppel as a cadet in HMS Raleigh, serving in the East Indies and China during the Second Anglo-Chinese War, until his ship wrecked near Macau when it struck an uncharted rock.

HNLMS Soemba

The ship fought Japanese forces in and around the Sunda Strait during the collapse of the East Indies.

Japanese aircraft carrier Chitose

She covered the Japanese landings in the East Indies and New Guinea from January–April 1942, and was damaged in the Eastern Solomons in August 1942.

Juan de Salcedo

He joined the Spanish military in 1564 for their exploration of the East Indies and the Pacific, at the age of 15.

Map of Rensselaerswyck

Philips Jansz van Haerlem is mentioned by David Pietersz de Vries, in his Korte Historiael, as a young man whom he engaged in June 1635 to pilot his vessel from Sandy Hook to New Amsterdam and who formerly had been in his service in the East Indies.

Martin de Goiti

Martín de Goiti was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish colonization of the East Indies and the Pacific, in 1565.

Patamar

Back in Isle de France (now Mauritius), Bouvet suggested the use of armed Patamars to General Decaen, Governor General of the French possessions in the East Indies, to conduct reconnaissance and raids on the British.

Richmal Mangnall

One brother, James, became a London solicitor, another, Kay, died in the East Indies in 1801.

Roaring Forties

The Roaring Forties were a major aid to ships sailing from Europe to the East Indies or Australasia during the Age of Sail, and in modern usage is favoured by yachtsmen on round-the-world voyages and competitions.

Ruy López de Villalobos

Ruy López de Villalobos (ca. 1500 – April 4, 1544), not to be confused with Heitor Villa-Lobos, was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Pacific from Mexico to establish a permanent foothold for Spain in the East Indies, which was near the Line of Demarcation between Spain and Portugal according to the Treaty of Saragossa in 1529.

William Welwod

In this work, Grotius complained that Welwod had misunderstood his treatise as an attempt to justify Dutch fishing in Scottish waters, when it was in fact primarily intended to argue for the Dutch right to trade with the East Indies.


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524th Special Operations Squadron

Bataan, Luzon, Philippines, 5 January 1942 (Air echelon operated from: Malang, Java, Netherlands East Indies, 18 February–c. 1 March 1942, Archerfield Airport 10–24 March 1942)

On 12 February pilots of the 91st flew their A-24s to Malang Java in the Netherlands East Indies to defend the island.

Anneke Grönloh

Grönloh was born in Tondano, North Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), and spent her early years in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in a Japanese concentration camp.

B. asiatica

Buddleja asiatica, a tender deciduous shrub species native to a vast area of the East Indies

Beb Vuyk

(Translated to English in: Two Tales of the East Indies, 'The Last House in the World' by Beb Vuyk and translated by André Lefevere.

Burma–France relations

2, No. 2, Autumn 2004, ISSN 1479-8484 ("A voyage to Pegu", translation of A Voyage to the East-Indies and China; Performed by Order of Lewis XV. Between the Years 1774 and 1781. Containing A Description of the Manners, Religion, Arts, and Scieneces, of the Indians, Chinese, Pegouins, and of the Islanders of Madagascar; Also Observations on the Cape of Good Hope, the Isles of Ceylon, Malacca, the Philippines, and Moluccas. by Pierre Sonnerat, Commissary of the Marine, (Vol. III, book 4, chapter 2).

C. Louis Leipoldt

Between 1902 and 1907, with funding from the botanist Harry Bolus, he read medicine at Guy's Hospital in London and then travelled in Europe, America and the East Indies.

Cornelis Marinus Pleyte

For this, he traveled to the Dutch East Indies, Sumatra, and Bali gathering artifacts, a trip which left a great impression upon him and inspired him to write a number of publications on Indonesian antiquities.

Cupronickel

Notably, Andreas Libavius, in his Alchemia of 1597 mentions a surface-whitened copper aes album by mercury or silver; but in De Natura Metallorum in Singalarum Part 1, of 1599, the same term was applied to "tin" from the East Indies (modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines) and given the Spanish name: tintinaso.

Dick de Hoog

By 1905 he was station chief in Jombang, where his career halted due to the fact that the highest job positions in the Dutch East Indies were restricted to people educated in the Netherlands and were usually occupied by expatriate Dutchmen.

Dirk Reinhard Adelbert van Langen

After the war he returned to the Dutch East Indies as a lieutenant colonel, where he was placed on the staff of Admiral Helfrich and charged with the deploying of the Dutch troops.

Dutch East Indies campaign

Even the combined forces could not stop or even slow the Japanese advance due to their much greater numbers; to face the Japanese attacking naval forces, the ABDA command had a conglomerate of ships drawn from any available units, which included the U.S. Asiatic Fleet (fresh from the fall of the Philippines), a few British and Australian surface ships, and Dutch units that had previously been stationed in the East Indies.

Fokker C.X

The East Indies Army ordered 13 C.Xs, but they were soon replaced in the scout/light bomber role by the American Martin B-10s.

France–Indonesia relations

During the reign of Governor General Herman Willem Daendels (1808–1811), France exercised its political influences in East Indies through Dutch Republic.

Herman Willem Daendels

Drawing on his experience from the East Indies, he came up with some very ambitious infrastructural projects, including a comprehensive road system, with a main road connecting Elmina and Kumasi in Ashanti.

Hitoshi Imamura

Imamura adopted an unusually lenient policy towards the local population of the former Netherlands East Indies, often in conflict with senior staff of the Southern Army and Imperial General Headquarters.

Hubertus van Mook

As with many Dutch and Indos growing up in the East Indies, he came to regard the colony particularly Java as his home.

Indies

The extensive East Indies are subdivided into two sections (from a European perspective), archaically called Hither India and Further India.

The designation East Indian was once primarily used to describe people of all of the East Indies, but more recently, it has been used widely to refer to an Indian from India, in order to avoid the potential confusion from the term American Indian who were once simply referred to as Indians (see the Native American name controversy for more information).

Indies Monument

Its design was chosen in 1986 by the Mayor of Amsterdam (a former government official in the Dutch East Indies) and the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam (a former resistance fighter).

James Morris Colquhoun Colvin

Their extended family was long established in the British East Indies as soldiers and administrators, and included Sir John Russell Colvin, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces during the Indian Mutiny, his sons Sir Auckland, K.C.S.I. and Sir Elliot Graham, K.C.S.I., as well as their cousin, the writer and curator Sir Sidney Colvin.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

On the second trip he acquitted himself so well of his commission, and made himself so remarkable by the success of his practice of commerce, that in October 1613 was appointed accountant-general of all VOC offices in East Indies and president of the head office in Bantam and of Jacatra (Jayakarta).

John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod

From 1779 he served with his regiment in the East Indies Campaign against Hyder Ali, joining the army under Major-General Sir Hector Munro assembled at St. Thomas Mount, Madras, in July 1780.

Juan de Silva

On December 22, 1607 a Dutch fleet of the Company of the East Indies set sail from Texel to attack the Portuguese fleet and forts in the East.

Jules van den Bossche

In 1859, Van den Bossche returned to the colonial administration of the Dutch East Indies, serving as resident of consecutively Bangka Island and Besoeki, before becoming governor of Sumatra's West Coast in late 1862.

Korthals

Pieter Willem Korthals (1807-1892), a Dutch botanist in the Dutch East Indies

Mathieu de Costa

A Rouen merchant then kidnapped him in Portugal or in the East Indies and sold or lent him to De Monts as an interpreter.

Merdeka Square, Jakarta

In 1818, during British rule in the East Indies under Stamford Raffles, the square's name was changed into Koningsplein (King's square) at the time the Governor-General's residence moved to a new palace, now known as Merdeka Palace.

Neroutsos Inlet

Neroutsos participated in the famed New Zealand to London clipper ship races around The Cape, and, with the Australian, South American and East Indies trade, sailed around the world four times before the age of 18.

Panembahan Kusuma Negara III

Assuming the throne following the death of his father on 22 December 1905, Usman was suspended from ruling in 1912 by the Netherlands East Indies authorities and was deposed by them on 16 January 1913 for "bad behaivour" and exiled to Bongor in Java.

Peso fuerte

Philippine peso fuerte, currency of the Spanish East Indies during the later Spanish colonial period;

South Sulawesi Campaign

The failure of conventional tactics prompted the Netherlands East Indies government to dispatch the maverick counter-insurgency expert Raymond Westerling who initiated a three-month pacification campaign from December 1946 to February 1947.

The Fortune of War

Admiral Drury - admiral on station at Pulo Batang in the Dutch East Indies.

Van Riemsdijk

Jeremias van Riemsdijk (1712–1777), Dutch noble and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies

Viscount Combermere

Viscount Combermere, of Bhurtpore in the East Indies and of Combermere in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.