S1-E18 - Shipwreck Savagery and Clandestine Colonization

After native people in the far south of Formosa kill survivors
from the wrecked US merchant vessel The Rover in 1867, the
Americans send a punitive expedition. A few years later, the
survivors of a Japanese (Ryukyuan) shipwreck are also killed,
near Pingtung's Mudan. The Qing authorities' weak response to the
incidents will sow the seeds for Japanese colonization of the
island.