The Night assault on Lam Koenjit in the night of 4 April to 5 April 1896 was an Achehnese attempt to storm one of the bastions of the invested Dutch post of Lam Koenjit in Groot-Atjeh, repelled only because the gun in that bastion happened to be loaded with case-shot.
The investment
The post, nicknamed Lam Loempoer — mud village — for the state of its ground, had drawn its water from Tjot Goeë until the patrols, always accompanied by a tame black sheep, came on the ongeluksdag of 29 March 1896 to the conviction that their post was surrounded and that they would henceforth have to make do with muddy water.
The attack
The commandant, Luitenant Creutz Lechleitner, hoped to prevent the enemy from penetrating the post: above the outwork surrounded by ijzerdraadversperring, within which the kitchen stood, rose the watch-house named Eikhoren, from which the enemy’s approach could be barred. Within the bastions of the benteng proper stood two 7½ cm. field-pieces and a cochoornmortier.
Hooijer recorded that in den nacht van 4 op 5 April 1896 werd een der bastions door den vijand bestormd, en ware het toen niet dat het stuk met een kartets geladen was, dan had die aanval ons noodlottig kunnen zijn — in the night of 4 to 5 April 1896 one of the bastions was stormed by the enemy, and had the gun not been loaded with case-shot the attack might have proved fatal.
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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. 14, 18.