Brouwershaven is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From H. N. A. Swart
In 1872 his father was pensioned. The family returned to the Netherlands by the sailing ship Kosmopoliet II, a voyage of 121 days round the Cape, touching at Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Ascension and Saint Helena — where Swart heard the name Napoleon for the first time in his life. They landed at Brouwershaven, lived for a time in Rotterdam, and finally settled at Kampen. There Swart went to school for the first time, under the schoolmaster Van Duijl, entering the lowest class with a brother three years his junior. During a free quarter of an hour he wandered into the sixth class, saw a problem in decimal fractions on the blackboard, took a piece of chalk and solved it; the master of the fourth class saw him and Swart was promoted at once to the sixth.
From 1872
In 1872 the father of H. N. A. Swart was pensioned; the family returned to the Netherlands by the sailing ship Kosmopoliet II in 121 days round the Cape, touching at Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Ascension and Saint Helena, landing at Brouwershaven and settling finally at Kampen. In October 1872 the Dutch believed war with Atjeh unavoidable “without possessing a single even moderately reliable datum concerning the land and its people”.
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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), passim.