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|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkulen Benkulen Bengkulu_(city) Benkulu City]|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkulen BenkulenBenkulu], Southwest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra Sumatra]
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Modern name: Bengkulu<br>
Variants: Benkulen, Bencoolen
==Records==
*[http://mahandisyoanata.multiply.com/photos/album/120/THE_OLD_BRITISH_CEMETERY_IN_BENCOOLEN_A_MEMORY_FOR_WEST_SUMATRA_GARRISON_ The Old British Cemetery in Bencoolen] Blog by Mahandisyoanata. Photographs of some of the gravestones and inscriptions 1775-1858
*[http://historyofbengkulu.blogspot.com/search/label/Treaty The Anglo-Dutch 1824 Treaty] History of Bengkulu website
*[http://mahandisyoanata.multiply.com/photos/album/120/THE_OLD_BRITISH_CEMETERY_IN_BENCOOLEN_A_MEMORY_FOR_WEST_SUMATRA_GARRISON_ Bencoolen Cemetery] mahandisyoanata.multiply.com
====Historical books online====
*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 . [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA1 pages 1-11]. Other Sections [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA11 page 11], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA105 page 105], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXiILz2MABEC&pg=PA209 page 209] Google Books
*''Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles,F.R.S., &c. &c., particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824: with details of the commerce and resources of the Eastern Archipelago, and selections from his correspondence'' by Sophia Raffles 1835 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lqA2AAAAMAAJ Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=86A2AAAAMAAJ Volume 2] Google Books
