The ambush at Tjot-Goe was the unexpected attack, on 29 July 1884, of a Dutch patrol of 27 bayonets on its return march to Tjot-Goe by the followers of Imam Habib, an Atjehnese chief who passed for a Dutch-friendly head and was a leverancier (deliverer/supplier) of the government. Nine men were killed, eight wounded, and ten rifles with ammunition taken as booty (Koloniaal Verslag, cited by Verstege in 1886). Place and date belong to the same period as the treachery of Toekoe Oemar of 3 July 1884: both were cited by Verstege as characteristic of the unreliability of even the “befriended” chiefs in the last summer before the execution of the concentration; the post of Tjot-Goe itself, outside the new line, would be provisionally retained until the tramway from Ketapang Doewa to Lambaroe was ready (see Completion of the concentrated position (March 1885)).
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Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), p. 86. OCR-filename: 20260801_235605_DLP-158-Een_beroep_op_het_Nederlandsche_volk_in_zake_het_Atjeh_vraagstuk_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.