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Showing posts with label
Japan
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Friday, 12 August 2011
Red City - the Mutinies of Semarang
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Semarang in Indonesia is now known locally as the Red City, after it´s Communist links. It was where Dutch immigrants started the local Comm...
Monday, 1 August 2011
The Dutch East Indies
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In the mid 19th century the islands that we now know as Indonesia were the Dutch East Indies. Well, most of it. Some parts such as Batavia (...
Friday, 15 July 2011
Steamships and Samurai 2 - The bombardment of Kagoshima
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It wasn´t supposed to be this way. Following the murder in September 1862 of Charles Richardson, by the samurai retinue of Shimazu Hisamit...
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Steamships & Samurai - Part 1
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Japan in the 1860s was undergoing massive changes, mainly due to growing foreign influence. Holland in the 1840s was the first, but this was...
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