Significant1651 – 1656 · 5 years

Great Ambon War

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Ambon · Hoamoal · Seram

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

VOC extirpated cloves on Hoamoal to enforce the spice monopoly.

Belligerents3

Dutch East India Company
Hitu
Ternate

ON THE MAPDutch Republic

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Great Ambon War (1651 – 1656). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/great-ambon-war · Sources & methodology