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A suicide attack is an attack intended to kill others and inflict widespread damage in the knowledge that oneself will die in the process. This article is concerned with two particular instances of suicide attacks, namely the tactics employed by the Kamikaze and modern suicide tactics and suicide terrorism.

In the late 17th century, Qing official Yu Yonghe recorded that injured Dutch soldiers fighting against Koxinga's forces for control of Taiwan in 1661 would use gunpowder to blow up both themselves and their opponents rather than be taken prisoner.

During the Belgian Revolution, the Dutch Lieutenant Jan van Speijk detonated his own ship in the harbour of Antwerp to prevent being captured by the Belgians.

Another example was the Prussian soldier Karl Klinke on 18 April 1864 at the Battle of Dybbøl, when he blew a hole in a Danish fortification.

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