#dutch east indies

[zenia62]

Letter from Napoleon to Daendels in 1810

Hii guys!! ✨️ So yesterday my brother decided to help me in getting one of Daendels book by Mendels 👀 I managed to take pictures of this book 2 years ago in National Library but never finished it so I'm rlly excited to be able to get them in pdf form cus it's easier for me to read 🫡 I found alot of Daendels letter in there n now I want to share y'all Napoleon letter to Daendels when he was in the Dutch East Indies ☺️

"Mr. General Daendels, Governor of my island of Java, I have received your two letters, which the two ships you dispatched to my port of Bordeaux delivered. I have also reviewed the letters you wrote to the King and the Dutch Government. I am sending a large number of frigates, corvettes, and other expeditions to supply Java. Officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers, administrators, along with guns, ammunition of all kinds, are being directed to you. I have also supported over sixty commercial expeditions to bring you what is necessary. I have exempted the colonial goods coming from the island of Java from customs duties in my ports. Your aide-de-camp, who stayed with me for a few days in Fontainebleau, informed me of the work you have done for the well-being and prosperity of the colony. I am writing this letter to express my satisfaction to you. I know of your talents and your zeal for my service. This letter serves no other purpose. I pray to God to keep you, Mr. General Daendels, in His holy protection. Written in Paris, on the twenty-fifth of November, 1810. Signed, Napoleon, for the Emperor. The Minister, Secretary of State, Duke of Bassano. The Minister of the Navy and Colonies, Decrès."

This made me realize that Napoleon doesn't rlly "forget" Daendels 🤔 Nap seemed very happy w Daendels services in Dutch East Indies 😯 As he should to be honest haha, I wish I could find more of their interaction to be honest, my question still remained; Does Daendels ever met Napoleon face to face? I found one or two said yes but mostly others never mentioned this "meeting" 😐 Maybe if u guys know abt this, feel free to tell me! 🫶 I rlly hope they do meet at one point, so it would be like; Napoleon meeting "Little Napoleon" 😆 (If y'all don't get it, Daendels got called Little Napoleon in the Dutch East Indies basically) Anyways, that's all for now, I'll post more letters I've found by today or tomorrow 😋 I'm sorry if there is misinformation due to translation 🙏 Thank you guys n have a nice day, stay safe 🌙

[icefords]

colonialism ended they might live and happy ever after at keboen djati

[w-m-pitt]

Long Live our King-Emperor, His Imperial Majesty Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand, By the Grace of God, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg, Marquis of Veere and Flushing, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Vianden, Diez, Spiegelberg, Buren, Leerdam and Culemborg, Burgrave of Antwerp, Baron of Breda, Diest, Beilstein, the town of Grave and the lands of Cuyk, IJsselstein, Cranendonk, Eindhoven, Liesveld, Herstal, Warneton, Arlay and Nozeroy, Hereditary and Free Lord of Ameland, Lord of Borculo, Bredevoort, Lichtenvoorde, Het Loo, Geertruidenberg, Clundert, Zevenbergen, Hooge and Lage Zwaluwe, Naaldwijk, Polanen, St Maartensdijk, Soest, Baarn, Ter Eem, Willemstad, Steenbergen, Montfort, St Vith, Bütgenbach, Dasburg, Niervaart, Turnhout and Besançon! 🇳🇱

[pan-pacifica]

[theshatterednotes]

Dutch author Hellas S. Haasse

[yearningforunity]

Studio portrait of a Klingalese woman.

Stafhell & Kleingrothe (Fotostudio), 1890-1905.

[carbone14]

Le Major-Général Michio Uno de la 37e Armée japonaise dépose son sabre aux pieds du Lieutenant-Colonel Ewan Murray Robson de l'Armée australienne – Campagne de Bornéo – Banjarmasin – Bornéo – 17 septembre 1945

Photographe : Caporal Robert Eric Donaldson

©Australian War Memorial – AWM 118033

[dirjoh-blog]

They did not want to bow.

In the West when we think about World War 2, we predominantly think about the war against the Nazis. However, there were quite a big number of Europeans who were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. We also often forget that the Japanese Imperial army , navy and air force were just as brutal, and sometimes even more cruel then the Nazis. Indonesia used to be one of the colonies, this meant…

[tenth-sentence]

Cox was an Englishman with capital whose dream – shared by many Top End squatters – was to sell beef and horses to India and the Dutch East Indies.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[zenia62]

Daendels Mental Health Problem + My Theory on it

Hey guys, as usual I'm randomly translating some pages in another Daendels book n found this paragraph that were quite interesting 👀

(...) Decline in his health condition, manifesting in attacks on his nerves and fever attacks, led to requests in 1809 to send a successor. These calls became stronger in 1810 when the English conquered Ambon, Banda, and Terate. Java, still in an inadequate state of defense, came under increasing pressure, and Daendels unsuccessfully pressed for help. In March 1811, he was dismissed. Two months later, he resigned from his position. His successor, J.W. Janssens, had to surrender Java to the English in the same year. (...)

I've always read abt Daendels was the one asking Napoleon to be replaced but never believed in them 🤔 But after seeing the same statement almost twice I believe that this could be facts. I read an article where they quoted one of Daendels letter to Napoleon I think (I forgot) asking him for a replacement 😶 Now hold on, if y'all look back again at Daendels letter to Aleida, he said that he didn't wished to be replaced bcs of the situation 😮 He wrote that on May 1810 while in the paragraph, he asked for replacement at 1809 n asked again urgently on the same year he wrote letter to Aleida

Soo, it's either that he didn't want to look weak infront of his wife or it could be caused by the "attack on his nerves" which after I looked, it was basically anxiety disorder ☹️ I can't believe this guy had anxiety 😭 that's so sad to be honest. Maybe it could be him overthinking abt if he's going to win against the British or smth like that. This sounded so confusing y'all but basically I was thinking that Daendels was kinda doubting himself (?) Like on one day he's like; "Yes I can do this I don't need to be replaced" n on other days he was like; "I can't do this what if I failed Napoleon would be disappointed at me I should be replace instead ��

I'm sorry y'all I'm bad at explaining things but sometimes I also felt like that so yeah, could be that he wrote those replacement letter during those doubting episodes of him n that those doubts increases more ever since the British conquered some islands 😔 I feel so bad for him I'm going to cry myself to sleep rn- Anyways, that's js a little theory of mine, thank you guys n have a wonderful day, stay safe 🌙

[captain-price-unofficially]

A Douglas A-20 Havoc of the U.S. Army 5th Air Force flies away from the havoc it has just wrought on an oil storage tank at Boela on the Island of Ceram, Dutch East Indies.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Office building of the Dutch East Indies Railway Co. in Semarang, Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[shoujoegg]

field school has been killing me but have a blank-eyed manic pixie dream merch cosplay kaz sketch from a bajillion yrs ago <3

[polaroidblog]

“Memoria polaroid” – un blog alla radio S23E21

“We’re either too old, too bold or stupid to move, I guess”, cantano i giovani Friko nella canzone che apre la scaletta di questa sera. Se anche voi vi riconoscete in tutte e tre le categorie, ecco qui – per darsi una mossa? – un’ora di novità indiepop e indie rock, senza trascurare i necessari brindisi, nella nuova puntata del podcast di “Memoria polaroid – un blog alla radio”, la trasmissione…

[diobrando]

I gave so many A's today 🤕