Rajah Brooke. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)

History Today | May 1, 2003| | Copyright

I was surprised by your piece `Birth of Sir James Brooke'. (Months Past, April 2003) ,presenting him as a benign character who cleared up a country `infested' with pirates and head-hunters. In fact he was a British agent, working to clear the seas (with the help of British gunboats) so as to allow his own country free trade, treating the Dyaks, who had generously helped him, with savage disdain. Greedy, cruel and ...

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