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Kakiali
Kakiali was a leader of Hitu, on the northern peninsula of Ambon Island in Maluku, who held the title of captain of Hitu. In the 1630s and early 1640s he led resistance against the Dutch East India Company and its clove monopoly, in alliance with Makassar and Ternatean rebels. He was murdered in 1643, and the Hitu war ended with the fall of the fortress of Kapahaha in 1646.
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