Nino Bixio was a general who died of cholera while commanding a transport ship at the roadstead of Atjeh in January 1874, and whose robbed corpse was sought for through the intervention of the Dutch ally Toekoe Nek of Marassa. The source work does not give further particulars of his identity or of the circumstances of his death, beyond noting that he was “the general Nino Bixio, then commander of a transport ship.” The name suggests he was an Italian — possibly a descendant or relative of the famous Italian patriot Nino Bixio (1828-1870), who had been a comrade of Garibaldi — but the source work does not elaborate.
The Recovery of the Corpse
Toekoe Nek had already before 11 January 11 January 1874 “promised his intervention in the recovery of the robbed corpse of the general Nino Bixio who had died of cholera, then commander of a transport ship.” The cholera had first raged among the Dutch troops and now made its ravages among the Atjehers; it was the same disease of which the sultan himself would die on 26 January 26 January 1874 at Pagger Ajer. The intervention of Toekoe Nek on behalf of the Dutch — at the very moment when the Dutch were seeking to take the Kraton — was one of the principal tokens of his alliance.
See Also
- Toekoe Nek Radja Moeda Setia
- Marassa
- Capture of the Kraton (24 January 1874)
- Second Aceh Expedition (1873-1874)
- Death of Sultan Aladin Mahmood Shah
- Aceh War
Source
De geschiedenis van Nederland in onzen tijd, by J. A. de Bruyne, Directeur der Hoogere Burgerschool te Zierikzee. Deel IV. 1872-1883. Nieuwe uitgave. Schiedam: J. F. Dupont, 1912, Hoofdstuk I, p. 22.
Nino Bixio was a general who died of cholera while commanding a transport ship at the roadstead of Atjeh in January 1874, and whose robbed corpse was sought for through the intervention of the Dutch ally Toekoe Nek of Marassa. The source work does not give further particulars of his identity or of the circumstances of his death, beyond noting that he was “the general Nino Bixio, then commander of a transport ship.” The name suggests he was an Italian — possibly a descendant or relative of the famous Italian patriot Nino Bixio (1828-1870), who had been a comrade of Garibaldi — but the source work does not elaborate.
The Recovery of the Corpse
Toekoe Nek had already before 11 January 11 January 1874 “promised his intervention in the recovery of the robbed corpse of the general Nino Bixio who had died of cholera, then commander of a transport ship.” The cholera had first raged among the Dutch troops and now made its ravages among the Atjehers; it was the same disease of which the sultan himself would die on 26 January 26 January 1874 at Pagger Ajer. The intervention of Toekoe Nek on behalf of the Dutch — at the very moment when the Dutch were seeking to take the Kraton — was one of the principal tokens of his alliance.
See Also
- Toekoe Nek Radja Moeda Setia
- Marassa
- Capture of the Kraton (24 January 1874)
- Second Aceh Expedition (1873-1874)
- Death of Sultan Aladin Mahmood Shah
- Aceh War
Source
De geschiedenis van Nederland in onzen tijd, by J. A. de Bruyne, Directeur der Hoogere Burgerschool te Zierikzee. Deel IV. 1872-1883. Nieuwe uitgave. Schiedam: J. F. Dupont, 1912, Hoofdstuk I, p. 22.