Telongbende was the dangerous band of the Meergebied which formed around the carbines captured at Tjampoeron on 24 December 1909 and which “kept the Lake District in turmoil for nearly two years”.
The carbines came from a group of infantry returning from Samarkilang, surprised in its marching bivouac at Tjampoeron, in which the European sergeant and brigade commander, six men and four convicts were killed and seven fusiliers and four convicts wounded. In January 1911 the Telongbende fired on Dutch patrols; the same year it “received the blow that had long been intended for it,” losing sixteen men and a carbine, a nephew of the Kedjoerön van Boekét being recognised among the dead. On 16 October 1911 the bulk of the band — twenty men with all its commanders — submitted, handing in the last three carbines lost at Tjampoeron.
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Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), Chapter XI.