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Amboyna massacre
1. As a modifier (with capital initial): designating the torture and execution of English and other traders on the Dutch colony of Amboyna (now Ambon Island) in Indonesia in 1623; relating to or reminiscent of this. Esp. in Amboyna massacre.Agents of the Dutch East India Company arrested, tortured, and executed twenty traders (ten English, nine Japanese, and one Portuguese) for allegedly plotting to take over the island. The incident soured Anglo-Dutch relations during a period of bitter trade rivalries.
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1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) ix. vii. 927 The Relation of the Amboyna Tragedy.
1652 Two Terrible Sea-fights 4 They were forced to do it by the exceeding torture they were put to... It is very probable there will shortly be more discoveries of this kind of Amboyna usage.
1654 R. Wylde Humble Petition 29 They would under-hand let fall all their complaints of the Amboyna Massacre, and other wrongs offered our people in India.
1668 D. Lloyd Memoires 689 Sir R. Canterell..had his Servants put to more than Amboyna Cruelties in Chancery-lane.
1857 Sepoy Rebellion Bristol Sel. Pamphlets 3 ‘The Amboyna massacre’..was, comparatively speaking, upon so small a scale, that we can hardly conceive how it should have excited so great a commotion.
1909 Econ. Rev. 19 378 The appointment of Van Speult, who had been implicated in the Amboyna affair, as admiral, excited much indignation.
2008 H. Pierce Unseemly Pictures 202 Memories of the Amboyna massacre were revived during the 1650s as political hostilities flared between the English and the Dutch.
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