The first Bali expedition was the Dutch expedition of 1846 against the Balinese princes of Beliling and Karang Assem, in which the chief places Beliling and Singa Radja were taken and burned; the two princes, convinced that they were not yet proof against Dutch arms, accepted peace on attractive conditions, a stronghold was raised at Beliling and 200 men left there. As Verstege recalled in 1886 — following the campaign history which luitenant-kolonel van Swieten, chief of the staff of the second expedition of 1848, afterwards wrote — the Indian government soon perceived that the closed treaties had only been a means for the radjas to prepare for stronger resistance: hardly was the expeditionary force back than the population was forbidden, on pain of death, to hold intercourse with the Dutch garrison, and by order of Goesti Djilantik the death penalty was executed at Beliling’s rijksbestuurder and on several Balinese who had transgressed the prohibition, in the hope of forcing the garrison back to Java. Two years later the sending of a second expedition became urgent (see Second Bali expedition (1848)).
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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. 38. OCR-filename: 20260801_235605_DLP-158-Een_beroep_op_het_Nederlandsche_volk_in_zake_het_Atjeh_vraagstuk_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.