Category: West New Guinea

Pages with category: West New Guinea

Australasia 1794

Australasia and the French Revolution

In 1789 the French Revolution forced...

Australasia 1829

Swan River Colony

Initial British claims to Australia...

Australasia 1849

Settlement of the South Island

Early colonial New Zealand saw a...

Australasia 1906

Consolidation of the Dutch East Indies

Despite its small size, the...

Australasia 1944

Western New Guinea Campaign

From Pearl Harbor on, the Allied...

Asia Pacific 1944

Battle of the Philippine Sea

In the Pacific, the Americans...

Asia Pacific 1949

Nationalist Taiwan

With the Communists victorious...

Australasia 1950

United States of Indonesia

Dutch efforts to reconquer Indonesia...

Australasia 1962

West New Guinea dispute

When the Netherlands recognized...

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