The island of Sumatra is renowned as an excellent source of pepper and
Ships have come to the island to trade throughout history in
1831 the American merchant ship friendship under Captain Charles Etta Kok had arrived off the chieftain of
kalabaw - in order to secure a cargo of pepper On February the 7th at ACOG and a few of his men went ashore to
Purchase some pepper from the natives when three native sail boats attacked his ship
Murdered friendships first officer and two others of her crew and thus plundering her cargo
Ethic hock and the other surviving members mast to escape to another village
There they elicit the help of three merchant captains who agreed to help him recover his vessel
With their help and a cock mash to retake his ship and eventually sail back to Massachusetts
Upon arrival there was a general public outcry against the massacre and in a response u.s
President Andrew Jackson dispatched the frigate USS Potomac
Under commander John Downes to punish the news for their treachery the Dutch also launched an expedition in response to the incident
Due to a treaty with Britain from 1824
They were unable to annex a number of native help islands under the assi sultanate and were limited to the island of sumantra
The same natives that had friendship became rather emboldened after the capture and launch attacks in Dutch ports within the area
in response
the Dutch declared them outside of the Aki
Sultanate and with American support plan to annex the native lands the Potomac reached coulumb on - on February the 5th of
1832
Downs decided to disguise his ship as a Danish merchant men in order to keep the element of surprise in his favor
The disguise worked so well that when a party of malanez parted at the bottom in the attempt to sell a cargo of pepper
they were detained so did not alert calamba to
Downs then sent a reconnaissance party to scout the defenses of the port but this was repulsed by the Milan's in
Addition to the three sail boats in the harbor
all these five forts were found to be guarding the town with the majority of them near the coastline downs ordered a detachment of
232 Marines into the ships boats some of which had been equipped with lighter cannons
the Marines burnt the vessels in the harbor an
Assault of the town's fort while support guns from the Potomac for uses oppress the fort's fire
The muskets the Americans used were far superior to the outdated Mattituck weapons of the Malay ins but the natives fought furiously
And the find evolved in the hand-to-hand combat
Following the battle two native commanders were killed along
150 Warriors with only two Americans that died during the attack and another 11 Marines wounded
After the coastal forts fell the remaining malanez fled towards the rear of the town were another fort way
But instead of engaging the last remaining fort the Americans attacked the town itself
Large-scale looting and pillaging occurred as well as many civilians slaying
Downes later ordered his men to return to the ship and he bombarded the fifth fort as well as the town and told
surviving leaders agreed to surrender
Which killed another 300 a process?
following this a number of neighboring tribes offered a peace deal with down's hearing news of the destruction of
Kalamata and that ends the first Sumatran expedition in
August of 1838 the American training vessel Eclipse was visiting the village of trouble gone on sumantra
when 24 mate and lions approached
the ship second mate allowed the malanez to board after they relieved themselves of their weapon and a regular train mission was done a
Few moments later the Eclipse returned as they wish to return the Malayan their weapons the Malayan
Around with knives and other bladed weapons attacked the crew
First they killed the second meet and then one by one the remaining men
some of the sailors jumped overboard
but the malay ins hunted them down and killed them all news of the massacre reached Commodore George see read in December of
1838
immediately read in the frigate Columbia set sail for sumantra together with the frigate John Adams the
Columbia held almost 500 men and mounted 50 guns while the John Adams around 220 men with 30 guns
The expedition arrived off southern sumantra on January the 1st the following year
the two American vessels first headed for Kuala Batu and once they arrived
The two US vessels had formed a line of battle choosen range of five earth and wooden forts that protected the village and opened fire
Over an hour later all of the forts were destroyed or in shambles the chief the village surrendered and agreed never to attack
American ships again
With this Commodore read set sail for Mookie the next American objective where they arrived the following day
the Americans landed a force of 316 Marines all under the command of Commodore TW Wyman of the Navy
Wyman's men attacked Mookie while Columbia and John Adams provided covering fire with the cannons
Although most of the inhabitants pull out their village upon the outbreak of fighting some of the Malayan men attempted to resist the attack
But they were overwhelmed
within a short time
Mookie was in flames the landing party then returned to their ships and sailed away
The period of expedition after the Mookie engagement and Commodore Reid continuing his cruise around the world the second Sumatran
Expedition achieved what the first expedition had not never again
Did Malayan plunder an American merchant ship and this did assist the Dutch?
Using the massacre as the pretext the Dutch launched a number of invasions across the islands further expand
They're east in these holdings