Raffles and the British Invasion of JavaMonsoon Books, 1.11.2012 - 340 sivua In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light. |
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| 1771 | |
| 1782 | |
| 1793 | |
Glorious Victory | 1817 |
A Thousand Little Questions | 1781 |
A New Field of Glory | |
The Buffalo and the Tiger | |
Mutiny and Mangos | |
The Queen of the Southern Ocean | |
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