United States Navy attacked the western coast of Aceh

vannour (69)in #aceh • 7 years ago (edited)

The scenery on the west coast of Aceh, overlooking Indian Ocean.

A tragic incident occurred in 1832 on the west coast of Aceh, Sumatra island. Potomac frigates are US warships, have punished the people of Kuala Batee (Battle of Quallah Battoo). Ports and fortresses be destroyed, because its people are blamed pirating American merchant ship Friendship the pepper trade in the region.

Potomac frigate. Source image

William Shubrick. Source image

Port of Kuala Batee, a city of international trade and the shipping industry center, located on the west coast of Aceh belonged to the kingdom of Aceh Darussalam.

A sudden attack at night, February 6, 1832, 260 US Marines under the Command William Shubrick landed in Kuala Batee then besieged fortresses. This attack did not get resistance, slaughter and arson occurred in the port city of Kuala Batee.

This incident occurred as a result of actions pirates, perhaps from the Aceh cheeky, have resulted in the destruction of the people of Kuala Batee, and tarnish the good name the kingdom of Aceh Darussalam in the international trade arena.

U.S. Infantry assaulting the Acehnese forts at Kuala Batee in 1832. Source image.

Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Source image

Military action is governed directly by the President of the 7th United States, Andrew Jackson. He issued orders to attack residents of a foreign country in Asia by military force with warships Potomac. Being a first time incident in the history of the United States to countries in Asia. Commodore John Downes as captain of frigate Potomac and successfully perform their duties on February 17, 1832.

To celebrate the success of warships Potomac duties, a crew of creating a poem.!

Battle of the Potomac with the Malays. Written by one of the crew. Sold, wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston.

Online Text. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/amss.as100770/. (Accessed February 22, 2017.)

Flashback

Before it happened, for more than fifty years of visits of merchant ships with pacing in the waters of the Kingdom of Aceh, are not impaired, either piracy or acts that are not fair to the crew who went ashore, never heard there was an American ship hijacked by the Acehnese or seized by naval vessels Kingdom of Aceh. These practices run until 1831.

Trade relations between the Kingdom of Aceh and the United States have started in 1789. Each year gets crowded traffic of merchant ships United States to ports on the west coast of Aceh. They arrived to load the pepper which is then transported to the United States, Europe, and China.

For the record, Aceh is currently under the control of the Republic of Indonesia since 1948. At that time, Indonesia is not in the world map.

Ancient map of the west coast of Aceh. Source image

Conclusion

Readings from several sources. American merchant ship hijacking incident was the work of a Dutch merchant ship, because the pepper trade competition at ports on the west coast of Aceh.

Here we do not justify Aceh pirates, and also does not justify the attitude of America to destroy the port in Kuala Batee and punish the people there, and do not accuse the cunning of a Dutch merchant ship when it was. All that is a lesson from history, hopefully we can interpret from the incident.

I want to connect over the historical incident with has recently occurrence in @steemit. There have been some adverse occurrence #Aceh taging. Some posts plagiarism by accounts from Aceh who had destroyed the popularity #Aceh tag. I and other colleagues from Aceh crew, will always give the flag to them if proven pure plagiarism.

Hopefully the dark history of similar does not happen again.

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