Amboina Massacre

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Facts

Date	February 1623
Location	Ambon • Indonesia

Topics

Western colonialism Ambon Dutch Republic

Key People

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Dutch merchant and statesman