Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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Amboina, a little way to the north of the Banda Islands, was another headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in this part of the world.
There were a very small number of English traders on the island at the time.
When I say small, I mean 10, precisely.
And the Dutch want to get rid of them.
They see them, for some reason, they see them as a threat.
And they...
Capture one of the English allies.
There were some Japanese who happened to be allied with the English on Amboina.
Japanese are all over the place at this point.
The Japanese are all over the place.
And under torture, one of the Japanese men says, yes, indeed, the English are going to try and take control of this Dutch fort, which, frankly, is utterly absurd.
The Dutch have got hundreds of troops in this fort on Amboina.
They've got tons and tons of weaponry.
The English are merchants there.
They've got about six guns.
In their wildest dreams, they couldn't hope to take control of this place and nor would they want to.
However, Jan Kern wants the English wiped out and thus begins what became known as the Massacre of Amboina.
It was long remembered partly because of the horrific treatment that was meted out during torture to the English.
And one of the notable tortures that the Dutch used was what essentially is waterboarding.
They would tie somebody to a chair.
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