Rover incident
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The Rover Incident (Chinese: 羅妹號事件; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ or Chinese: 羅妹號慘案; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lô-mōe-hō Chhám-àn[1]) occurred on 12 March 1867 when the American merchant ship Rover, captained by Joseph Hunt[2] who was accompanied by his wife Mercy G. Beerman Hunt,[3] and en route from Shantou to Niuzhuang,[4] was wrecked off the coast of Taiwan, then ruled by the Qing dynasty.[5] The ship struck a coral reef called Qixingyan near Cape Eluanbi and drifted into the area of Kenting[6] in modern-day Hengchun, Pingtung County, Taiwan. Fourteen American sailors, including Hunt and his wife,[1] were killed by Taiwanese Aborigines[7][8] in revenge for earlier killings of Kaolut (Koalut/Ku-a-lut/etc) tribe members by foreigners. Subsequently, the U.S. military decided to send a military expedition against the tribe members responsible.[9]
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Traditional Chinese | 羅妹號事件 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 罗妹号事件 | ||||||||||
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