Tjadé was a Dutch encampment (kampement) in Groot-Atjeh to the north of the kampong (village) belt of the XXVI Moekims, to which the column operating under General van der Heijden withdrew for the night after the action at the fortified Messigit — the withdrawal that provoked the general’s anger.
The withdrawal
Hooijer recorded, through the tale of an old Ambonese soldier at Toengkoeb, that the column — having cut its way through hundreds of paggers (bamboo fences), captured a couple of bentengs in passing, and covered only half its road by four in the afternoon — withdrew ter wille van een rustigen nacht voor de vermoeide soldaten to the north, to the encampment at Tjadé, instead of pressing further or at least remaining where it was to resume the task at first light. En dat was de reden van des Generaals toorn geweest — that had been the reason for the general’s wrath, for as much as he cared for his men, he demanded much of them.
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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. 24, 26.