The Abandonment of Anagaloeng in 1884 was the Dutch evacuation of the benteng held at Anagaloeng on the Atjeh-rivier in Groot-Atjeh, part of the general withdrawal behind the geconcentreerde linie that inaugurated the ten-year concentratie period.
The withdrawal
Hooijer recorded that the benteng the Dutch had kept occupied after the fighting was decided, when rest and peace seemed to prevail as far as the remotest districts of the XXII Moekims, was in 1884 verlaten, daar de onverzoenlijke en slechts voor macht bukkende Atjehers opnieuw de wapenen hadden kunnen opnemen en ons noodzaakten achter de geconcentreerde linie te wijken — was abandoned in 1884, because the irreconcilable Achehnese, who bow only to power, had been able to take up arms again and compelled the Dutch to withdraw behind the concentrated line.
The death of Teungkoe di Tiro
The man who had then been the Achehnese spiritual leader in the holy war, Oelama Teungkoe di Tiro, breathed his last at Anagaloeng, lying on the gravestone erected there for Kapitein Miseroy in the time of Dutch mastery. His life-aim — to drive the Dutch out of Atjeh and himself become spiritual supreme head — had failed; the geconcentreerde linie had proved too strong for him.
Later re-occupation
The Dutch returned to Anagaloeng only after Toekoe Djohan took the place on 21 December 1893, and built there a benteng which Hooijer called a model of neatness. It was lifted and burnt on 18 April 1896.
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De verlaten posten in Groot-Atjeh, door G. B. Hooijer, Gep. Luit.-Kolonel O. I. Leger, met 24 platen (Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn; Batavia: G. Kolff & Co., 1897). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, Centrale Boekerij, Amsterdam. OCR-filename: 20260719_140140_DLP-134-De_verlaten_posten_in_Groot_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt, p. 48.