Lam Barih — also written Lambarih — was a kampong (village) and Dutch temporary post on the existing road from Lambaroe to Anagaloeng in the XXII Moekims of Groot-Atjeh, taken by Toekoe Djohan after seven days of fighting in November 1893 and occupied by Dutch troops on 30 November 1893 at his repeated insistence.
Capture and occupation
When Toekoe Djohan was set the new task of attacking that part of the XXII Moekims which fringed the Dutch concentrated position on the south-east and bordered the now cleared XXVI Moekims, the resistance he met far exceeded that in the XXVI Moekims. Only after seven days of fighting and considerable losses could he make himself master of Lam Barih, op een kwartiertje afstand van de geconcentreerde linie — a quarter of an hour’s distance from the geconcentreerde linie. At his repeated urging a temporary post was occupied there by the Dutch on 30 November 1893, on the existing road from Lambaroe to Anagaloeng.
Description
The position lay at the edge of the kampong chain through which the Atjeh-rivier rolls its yellow waters. High watch-houses permitted a view over the wide rice-fields of Lamkrak, at which was directed the 12 cm. gun visible on the left of the plate; luxuriant trees shaded the officers’ and soldiers’ quarters raised of bamboo and atap (palm-thatch). Several of those trees were felled to make the fire beneath the enormous cooking-kettles, thereby saving, to the soldiers’ benefit, the money that would otherwise have been booked to the mess account for firewood.
The traffic along the road, just visible at the right of the plate, gave variety to life at the post near Lambaroe and prevented the garrison from feeling so lonely and forsaken as elsewhere: men leefde er als op een soort van boerderij — they lived there as on a sort of farm.
1895–1896
Forty men were taken from Lam Barih and Lam Soet by the liniecommandant (commander of the line) on 7 March 1896 as he hurried from Senelop to the relief of Kapitein Blokland’s mauled patrol at Anagaloeng. Hooijer also recorded that Toekoe Moesa Anaq Batee attacked the passer-goers between Lambarih and Anagaloeng and penetrated the IX Moekims. The post was relieved and lifted on 18 April 1896 by the columns that simultaneously relieved Anagaloeng and Senelop, after the surrounding population had ranged itself on the side of Toekoe Oemar, who had gone over to the Moslemin, and after the blokhuizen in the neighbourhood had been burnt by the Dutch.
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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, pp. 38, 50, 52-53.