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Palace guards

Here are some Palace guards in Jogjakarta- the true throne of Central Java and all of Indonesia.

Originally Hamngku Buwana had a mitliray of several hundred thousand includng 6000 hevail armoured war elephant- but the promised British cannons never arrived and his force was defeated at the hands of the Muslim Fahatillah supported by Dutch and Portuegese.

The Hamengku buwana kingdom was never as powerful again and was split into 2, then 2 again to diminsh the authority of us native aristocrat. My family was a famous knight to one of the Hamnegku buwana.

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Uploaded on September 12, 2007
Taken on September 12, 2007