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Daily National Intelligencer
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Dutch forces failed in two attempts to retake a key Sumatran fort from natives who massacred European residents. Dissatisfaction grows in other Dutch East Indies settlements due to barbarous treatment of natives, requiring large forces for control. Reports from Batavia to mid-December.
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Advices have been received from Batavia to the middle of December last: the Dutch had made two very desperate attempts, but without success, to retake a place of considerable importance on the Island of Sumatra, which had fallen into the hands of the natives, by whom the European residents had been most inhumanly massacred. In the last attack some ships of war succeeded in getting within fire of the fort, the natives poured in a heavy discharge of musketry and great guns, and set fire to nearly 100 bamboo houses, which, floating down the current, carried destruction among the vessels. Strong symptoms of dissatisfaction were manifested in several other of the Dutch settlements, in India. The treatment of the natives, by the Dutch, is said to be very barbarous; and it is thought that it is in consequence of such ill treatment that the disaffection is so manifest, that a large force is requisite to keep the natives in subjection.
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Island Of Sumatra
Event Date
Middle Of December Last
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european residents most inhumanly massacred by natives; dutch attempts to retake failed; destruction among dutch vessels from burning houses
Event Details
Dutch made two desperate but unsuccessful attempts to retake a place of importance on Sumatra from natives who had captured it and massacred Europeans. In last attack, native musketry, great guns, and 100 burning bamboo houses destroyed vessels. Dissatisfaction in other Dutch settlements in India due to barbarous treatment of natives, requiring large force for subjection.