White Rajahs of Sarawak

>>1363524
History never fails to amaze me.

>>1363524
Brunei got problems with criminals and shit, James Brooke decides to help Brunei and he is rewarded Sarawak. Something like that

>>1363580

>tfw you were born too late to be rewarded your own kingdom by some southeast asian monarch you helped killing a bunch of pirates

>James Brooke was real
Holy shit what

>we wuz rajahs n sheeit

>>1363588
>ywn have sex with all the cute malays after liberating them from pirates

>>1363943
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brooke

As real (And as awesome) as it gets.

>>1363958

Except this shit actually fucking happened, absurd as it may seem. This here is one of the reasons i just fucking love history.

>>1364188
Think about this: the novels I read as a kid were about pirates in Malaysia. The villain was James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, who usurped the protagonist's throne. Twenty years later I discover he was a real person. What the fuck man.

>>1364196
And there was a dynasty of black pharaohs too, so they wuz actually kangz

>>1364315
"we wuz" is reserved for false claims of lineage and falsehoods.

its the most misused meme on 4chan.

>>1363524
Sarawak people today still appreciate the memory of the Brooke Dynasty.

t. a malaysian who knows some people from Sarawak