Rover incident

Rover incident
Rover incident
Traditional Chinese	羅妹號事件
Simplified Chinese	罗妹号事件
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Luófāháo shìjiàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lô-mōe-hō Sū-kiāⁿ

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]

^ ^a ^b ^c 臺灣歷史地圖增訂版 [Taiwan Historical Maps, Expanded and Revised Edition]. Taipei: National Museum of Taiwan History. February 2018. p. 78. ISBN 978-986-05-5274-4. 在1867年(同治6年)3月間，美國商船羅妹號(Rover)因遭遇暴風，在鵝鸞鼻南方七星岩觸礁後沉沒，船長、船員等14人在龜仔甪社所在的海岸登陸，遭到殺害。{...}地圖繪製:李仙得{...}羅妹號慘案 THE ROVER'S CASE.
^ "李仙得略傳" (PDF).
^ "Botefuhr Family". www.knottedwillow.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
^ "Papers Past — Timaru Herald — 10 July 1867 — WRECK OF THE BARQUE ROVER". Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
^ Davidson (1903), p. 115.
^ "Jeff's Taiwan: Taiwan's Southern Cape (恆春半島)". formosaguy.blogspot.com. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 2015-05-15.
^ Japan Weekly Mail. Jappan Meru Shinbunsha. 1874. pp. 263–.
^ "Taiwan/Formosa".
^ "Taiwan Panorama Magazine | Taiwan-- A History in Maps". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2015-05-15.

[twlidu-1] 臺灣歷史地圖增訂版 [Taiwan Historical Maps, Expanded and Revised Edition]. Taipei: National Museum of Taiwan History. February 2018. p. 78. ISBN 978-986-05-5274-4. 在1867年(同治6年)3月間，美國商船羅妹號(Rover)因遭遇暴風，在鵝鸞鼻南方七星岩觸礁後沉沒，船長、船員等14人在龜仔甪社所在的海岸登陸，遭到殺害。{...}地圖繪製:李仙得{...}羅妹號慘案 THE ROVER'S CASE.

[2] "李仙得略傳" (PDF).

[3] "Botefuhr Family". www.knottedwillow.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.

[govt-4] "Papers Past — Timaru Herald — 10 July 1867 — WRECK OF THE BARQUE ROVER". Archived from the original on 2012-09-30. Retrieved 2015-05-15.

[FOOTNOTEDavidson1903[httpsarchiveorgstreamislandofformosap00davipage115mode1up_115]-5] Davidson (1903), p. 115.

[blogspot-6] "Jeff's Taiwan: Taiwan's Southern Cape (恆春半島)". formosaguy.blogspot.com. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 2015-05-15.

[7] Japan Weekly Mail. Jappan Meru Shinbunsha. 1874. pp. 263–.

[8] "Taiwan/Formosa".

[sino-9] "Taiwan Panorama Magazine | Taiwan-- A History in Maps". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2015-05-15.

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