What is Run (island)?
[[File:Run_and_Nailaka_(Banda_Islands).jpg|thumb|Run]] '''Pulau Run''' is an [[island]] in [[Indonesia]]. It is one of the smallest Islands of the [[Banda Islands]]. It is about 3&nbsp;km long and less than 1&nbsp;km wide. It used to be of great importance, because of the value of the spices [[nutmeg]] and ''mace''. Both spices are from the same tree. The trees were only grown on the Banda Islands. During the history of the [[spice trade]] sailors of the [[British East India Company]] of the second expedition of [[James Lancaster]], [[John Davis (English explorer)|John Davis]] and [[John Middleton]] who stayed in [[Bantam (city)|Bantam]] on [[Java (island)|Java]] first reached the Island in [[1603]]. They made good contacts with the people who lived there. Two wars were fought over the extremely costly spices. The [[1654 Treaty of Westminster|Treaty of Westminster]] ended the [[First Anglo-Dutch War]] of [[1652]]–[[1654]]. According to the treaty, Run should have been returned to [[Kingdom of England|England]]. The first attempt in 1660 failed due to formal constraints by the Dutch; after the second in 1665 the English traders were expelled in the same year and the Dutch destroyed the nutmeg trees. After the [[second Anglo-Dutch War]] of [[1665]]–[[1667]] England and the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]] of the Netherlands agreed in the [[Treaty of Breda]] to the status quo: The English kept the island of [[Manhattan]] which a fleet sent by the Duke of York (the future [[Charles II of England|Charles II]]), had occupied illegally in 1664 and renamed from [[New Amsterdam]] to [[New York City|New York]]. Run was officially given to the Dutch. The Dutch monopoly on nutmeg and mace was destroyed by the transfer of nutmeg trees to [[Ceylon]], [[Singapore]] and other British colonies in 1817 after the capture of the main Island [[Bandalontor]] in 1810 by Captain Cole. This led to the decline of the Dutch supremacy in the [[spice trade]], but there are still [[nutmeg]] trees growing on Run today. == Further rea