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==Records== | ==Records== | ||
Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, [[British Library]] reference '''IOR N/7'''. | Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, [[British Library]] reference '''IOR N/7'''. | ||
==Books== | |||
*''Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments'' by Alan Harfield 1985. A BACSA [http://www.bacsa.org.uk publication] | |||
*''Bencoolen: A History on the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825'' by Alan Harfield 1995 is available at the British Library. Read about the [http://wftw.nl/bencoolen/bencoolen.html book] | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
Revision as of 11:53, 12 August 2009
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| Coordinates: | -3.8, 102.25 |
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| Place Name: | Benkulen City |
| State/Province: | Benkulen |
| Country: | Indonesia |
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A settlement originally estalished in 1685 by the East India Company on the south side of the island of Sumatra, following the expulsion of the EIC from Bantam by the Dutch. In 1714, the EIC built Fort Marlborough to protect its interests.
In 1825, the EIC exchanged Benkulen with the Dutch for Malacca which was more strategically useful to the British. Benkulen remained a Dutch possession until after World War 2.
Spelling Variants
Modern name: Bengkulu
Variants: Benkulen, Bencoolen
Records
Ecclesiastical Returns: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials. Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen, Sumatra] 1759-1825, British Library reference IOR N/7.
Books
- Bencoolen: The Christian Cemetery and the Fort Marlborough Monuments by Alan Harfield 1985. A BACSA publication
- Bencoolen: A History on the Honourable East India Company's Garrison on the West Coast of Sumatra 1685-1825 by Alan Harfield 1995 is available at the British Library. Read about the book
External links
'Benkulen', The British Empire.
'Bengkulu', Wikipedia.
Article in the Asiatic Journal, Volume 13, January-June 1822. A Succinct Historical Narrative of the East India Company’s Endeavours to Form Settlements and to Extend and Encourage Trade in the East and of the Causes by which those Endeavours have been Frustrated. Section 1 Sumatra, Borneo, Java, the Eastern Islands, etc . pages 1-11. Other Sections page 11, page 105, page 209