Parliamentary Note on Relations with Aceh 1872-1873 was an official governmental memorandum presented to the Dutch States-General by Minister of Colonies I. D. Fransen van de Putte during the parliamentary session of 1872 and 1873, documenting the history of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Aceh Sultanate since the Treaty of London 1824.
Purpose and Scope
The memorandum was prepared by I. D. Fransen van de Putte to justify the mounting confrontation with Kraton of Aceh following the Anglo-Dutch Sumatra Treaty of 1871. It detailed decades of diplomatic correspondence, alleged treaty infractions, and the negotiations that preceded the dispatch of the First Aceh Expedition in April 1873.
Usage in Military Historiography
In his 1875 polemic against General F. V. A. de Stuers, General G. G. Booms referenced page 34 (cited as page 69 in de Stuers’s article) of the Parliamentary Note on Relations with Aceh 1872-1873. While de Stuers used the note to argue that the Dutch East Indies Government faced force majeure and could not postpone the First Aceh Expedition, Booms demonstrated from the same document that the government had alternative diplomatic and naval options available in early 1873.
See Also
- 1872
- 1873
- I. D. Fransen van de Putte
- G. G. Booms
- F. V. A. de Stuers
- Treaty of London 1824
- First Aceh Expedition
Source
Over de eerste expeditie tegen Atjeh: Een antwoord aan Generaal de Stuers, G. G. Booms, ‘s-Gravenhage: A. van Hoogstraten & Zoon, 1875, pp. 6-7.