The Storm of Senelop on 12 March 1894 was the assault by which Toekoe Djohan, supported from Kroeng Gloempang by Dutch artillery, took the fortified position of Senelop in Groot-Atjeh from a garrison commanded by the sister of the late Habib Samalanga and fifteen other women who had devoted themselves to death.
The action
Hooijer recorded that met Kroeng Gloempang in den rug en gesteund door ons geschut, kon Toekoe Djohan den 12den Maart 1894 tegen Senelop optrekken, waar de zuster van wijlen Habib Samalanga het bevel voerde en zich met 15 andere fanatieke vrouwen ten dood had gewijd.
Ernstig was de strijd, dien hij daar te voeren had — serious was the struggle he had to wage there — and only when he placed himself at the head of his troops met zijn zonnescherm in de hand (with his sunshade in his hand) and ran in upon the fortification together with Toekoe Hoessin Longbattah, who waved a handkerchief, did he succeed in mastering it.
Occupation
Three days later, on 15 March 1894, the position was occupied by Dutch troops. It became a target for the enemy: many times unexploded Dutch granaatkartetsen came back at and into the fortification with filed-off ridges and a bamboo tube with a fuse in place of the time-fuse, fired from old sawn-off iron cannon or, as it was said, from hollowed-out coconut trunks strongly bound about with stolen telephone wire.
See Also
- Senelop
- Sister of Habib Samalanga
- Habib Samalanga
- Teukoe Oemar
- Toekoe Hoessin Longbattah
- Kroeng Gloempang
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. 53.