The Dutch occupation of a benteng at Toengkoeb on 27 September 1893 returned Dutch soldiers to ground in the XXVI Moekims of Groot-Atjeh which they had abandoned in 1884 after four years of possession, and was made necessary by the wavering conduct of the oeleebalang T. Tjoet Toengkoeb.
Circumstances
Hooijer recorded that Toekoe Tjoet, by his wavering attitude, so often threw affairs into confusion that het den 27sten September 1893 noodig geoordeeld werd één zijner bentengs te Toengkoeb door onze eigene troepen te doen bezetten — it was judged necessary on 27 September 1893 to have one of his bentengs at Toengkoeb occupied by Dutch troops.
The contrast with 1880–1884
Daar zaten dus onze soldaatjes opnieuw op de plaats, die in 1884 door hen verlaten was, nadat zij er vier jaren lang heer en meester waren geweest — thus the soldiers sat again on the place they had left in 1884, after being lords and masters there for four years. But where formerly the columns under General van der Heijden had raised a great encampment at Toengkoeb holding two battalions of infantry, a detachment of cavalry, three sections of artillery, sappers, survey personnel and a thousand convict labourers and coolies, the new garrison numbered only two officers and fifty men, with no gun on the ramparts and no medical officer, who had to be fetched from Lamjong in the geconcentreerde linie when required.
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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, pp. 16, 22.