Anak Galoeng was an Atjehnese place in Groot-Atjeh which for a long time was the Dutch headquarters — the seat to which Pruijs van der Hoeven, as Gouverneur-Commissaris, wanted in September 1880 to move the chief seat of the government as lying more in the centre of the then position, a proposal to which the government however did not consent. The Dutch post there was given up at the execution of the concentration in February 1885 (evacuated in the second series, together with Boekloe); in the meantime the evacuation of the posts to the south of Anak Galoeng, between 10 and 20 January 1885, had cost the Dutch 4 dead and 30 wounded, and on 15 and 20 January the troops had to proceed offensively to drive the enemy from his entrenchments and destroy them (see Completion of the concentrated position (March 1885)). On this very place of the former Dutch headquarters the foremost leader of the resistance, Toekoe di Tiroe, afterwards established his headquarters — the detail that Verstege called well worth noting in connection with the leader’s proclamation of 2 February 1885.
See Also
- Tengkoe di Tirou
- Proclamation of Toekoe di Tiroe (2 February 1885)
- Completion of the concentrated position (March 1885)
- 1885
- A. Pruys van der Hoeven
Source
Een beroep op het Nederlandsche volk in zake het Atjeh-vraagstuk, door J. J. W. E. Verstege (Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1886), pp. 67, 82. OCR-filename: 20260801_235605_DLP-158-Een_beroep_op_het_Nederlandsche_volk_in_zake_het_Atjeh_vraagstuk_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.