After a six-month voyage, the Carmelite missionary Paolino da San Bartolomeo (1748–1806) arrived in Malabar in India towards the end of July 1776. Later acclaimed as an orientalist, he was among the ...

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The repatriation will include the “Lombok treasure,” a collection of 335 gold and silver items plundered by Dutch troops from the Indonesian island in 1894. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's apology ...

At first, they sailed to the East Indies, which are now modern-day Indonesia and the Philippines, and tried to compete with the Dutch, French and Portuguese merchants who were already there.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login As first mate aboard an East India Company vessel, James Horsburgh (1762–1836) was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean in 1786 after faulty ...

Rucksack made for Dutch East Indies Army. Japanese issued Prisoner's of War with this captured equipment. It belonged to Jim Smith from Salisbury. He was a radar technician in the RAF when he was ...

Nevertheless, this research method is not intended in any sense to diminish the multifaceted realities of the Dutch East Indies at the time. In fact, by exploring conditions from a Dutch colonial ...