Nalon 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 Meergebied
In February the hiding-place of Keutjhi’ Saman, the long-sought panglima of the ex-pretender sultan, was surprised; he fell with three adherents. Sixteen more were killed and a carbine taken in another action, among the dead being recognised a nephew of the Kedjoerön van Boekét. In May a klewang attack on a marching bivouac near Nalon cost one killed, three wounded and one carbine; more blows fell on the Telong band; more ladangs and hiding-places of Tgk. di Barat were cleared up in the Samarkilangsche; and in July came the report that in most valleys of this mountain country submission was under deliberation — that month costing the resistance nineteen killed, sixty-three submissions and three precious carbines.
From The resistance in Atjeh 1908–1912
Sixteen more were killed and a carbine taken in another action, among the dead being recognised a nephew of the Kedjoerön van Boekét. Then some months without much contact; in May a klewang attack on a marching bivouac near Nalon (one killed, three wounded, one carbine); another blow at the Telong band; more reports, more ladangs and hiding-places of Tgk. di Barat cleared up in the Samarkilangsche; and at last in July the news that in most valleys of this mountain country submission was under deliberation — that month costing the resistance nineteen killed, sixty-three reports and three precious surrendered carbines.
From klewang
Du Croo defined the pacificatie as the conversion of Atjeh from a province “governed with sabre and carbine” into a normal part of the Indies. Under van Heutsz “the offensive and the sabre came to the fore.” The klewang attack — the sudden rush with cold steel on a careless bivouac or patrol — remained the characteristic Acehnese tactic to the end: at Nalon in 1911, at Linggö, at Pénding, and finally at Koeala Bhèë on 25 April 1918. “Meulaboh is the country par excellence for sabre charges,” du Croo wrote. It was a klewang blow across the face that disfigured G. F. P. Gosenson for life in 1917, and an Acehnese police servant’s klewang that struck down T. Béntara Titeuë in 1913.
See Also
- Meergebied
- The resistance in Atjeh 1908–1912
- klewang
- H. N. A. Swart
- General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943)
- Atjeh
Source
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.