Java War (1741–1743): Difference between revisions

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Towards the end of October 1740, survivors of the massacre, led by [[Khe Pandjang]],{{efn|Sources spell his name alternatively as Khe Pandjang, Que Pandjang, Si Pandjang, or Sie Pan Djiang.{{sfn|Setiono|2008|p=135}}{{sfn|Raffles|1830|p=235}}{{sfn|Dharmowijono|2009|p=301}} Setiono suggests that his actual name may have been Oie Panko.{{sfn|Setiono|2008|p=135}}}} attempted to flee to [[Banten]] but were blocked by 3,000 of its [[Sultanate of Banten|sultan's]] troops.{{sfn|Setiono|2008|pp=114–116, 119}}{{sfn|Ricklefs|1983|p=270}} The survivors then fled east, towards [[Semarang]].{{sfn|Setiono|2008|p=135}}{{sfn|Ricklefs|1983|p=27}} Despite being warned of an imminent uprising by Chinese Lieutenant Que Yonko, the military commander for [[Java]], Bartholomeus Visscher, dismissed the threat of the incoming Chinese. A minority in Java, the Chinese began forging alliances with the [[Javanese people|Javanese]], who were the largest ethnic group on the island.{{sfn|Setiono|2008|pp=136–137}}

Adoption of Islam back then was a marker of [[peranakan]] status which it no longer means. The Semaran Adipati and the Jayaningrat families were of Chinese origin.<ref name="Remmelink1990">{{cite book|author=Willem G. J. Remmelink|title=Emperor Pakubuwana II, Priyayi & Company and the Chinese War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H6wuAQAAIAAJ&q=The+general+term+for+Javanized+Chinese+was+peranakan,+which+nowadays+simply+means+locally+born,+but+at+the+time+also|year=1990|publisher=W.G.J. Remmelink|page=136}}</ref><ref name="Remmelink1994">{{cite book|author=Willem G. J. Remmelink|title=The Chinese war and the collapse of the Javanese state, 1725-1743|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ZVuAAAAMAAJ&q=The+general+term+for+Javanized+Chinese+was+peranakan,+which+nowadays+simply+means+locally+born,+but+at+the+time+also|year=1994|publisher=KITLV Press|isbn=978-90-6718-067-2|page=136}}</ref>

== 1741 ==