The Capture of Lam Barih was the seven-day struggle by which Toekoe Djohan made himself master, in November 1893, of the kampong (village) of Lam Barih in the XXII Moekims of Groot-Atjeh, a quarter of an hour from the geconcentreerde linie, followed by the Dutch occupation of a temporary post there on 30 November 1893.
The fighting
Scarcely had Toekoe Djohan finished his work in the XXVI Moekims when a new task was given him: an attack on that part of the XXII Moekims which fringed the Dutch concentrated position on the south-east and bordered the now cleansed XXVI Moekims. Only if the Moslemin were driven from it too, Hooijer wrote, could lasting rest be counted on in the liberated territory.
De tegenstand, dien hij hier ondervond, overtrof verre dien in de XXVI Moekims ontmoet — the resistance he met here far exceeded that encountered in the XXVI Moekims — and only after seven days of fighting and considerable losses could he make himself master of Lam Barih.
The Dutch post
At his repeated insistence a temporary post was occupied by the Dutch on 30 November 1893 on the existing road from Lambaroe to Anagaloeng. The position lay at the edge of the kampong chain through which the Atjeh-rivier rolls its yellow waters, with high watch-houses commanding the wide rice-fields of Lamkrak at which a 12 cm. gun was directed.
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Source
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. 38.