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The entrance of Benteng (or Fortress) Duurstede on the little visited island Saparua.
Build by the Dutch in the late 17th century to fight off the English over the spice trade.
However, Pattimura, now an Indonesian national heroe, was able to overrun it without any significant resistance in 1817, killing all the Dutch occupiers, except for one 6 year old boy.
He paid for this by being hung from the gallows at the nearby island of Nusa Laut.
The cow in the foreground can't be bothered with these historical details. She's just distracted by the photopgrapher. |
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