Lingga

Raja Nara, king of Indragiri, in conjunction with a force from Bintang, attacked the king of a neighbouring island called Lingga, who was in friendship with the Portuguese.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

This ecoregion approximates the spatial extent of MacKinnon's subunit 07a, but we also included the Lingga and Riau archipelagos.

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On the evening of October 15, as the sun set over the flat, sandy islands of the Lingga anchorage, Admiral Kurita appeared on the foredeck of theAtago, alone and looking lost in thought.

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Some days, theYamato would stage a mock attack on Lingga anchorage, while theMusashi played the role of defender; other days, the roles would be reversed.

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But in the tepid waters off Lingga, the war games went on.

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Koyanagi flew back to Lingga to report to Admiral Kurita.

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Ozawa and Toyoda were barely speaking to each other—and no one was speaking to Admiral Kurita, commander of the Second Fleet, who would actually command the main battle fleet if Ozawa failed to come to Lingga to take charge.

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He understood before he sortied from Lingga Gulf that his fleet was being sent out as a kind of offering, to appease the war gods and show the Japanese people that the navy, too, would sacrifice to protect the homeland.

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He roamed the hot sands around Lingga searching for pigeons.

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He badgered Ozawa to take his carriers and sail south to Lingga, near Singapore, where Admiral Kurita had moved with the battleships and cruisers of the Second Fleet to be close to a ready oil supply.

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