Raffles and the British Invasion of Java
Book Details
Author(s)
Tim Hannigan
Publisher
Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN
9814358851
ISBN-13
9789814358859
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Sales Rank
#837,470
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
