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From 21 January 1945 to August 30, 1945, Fort van den Bosch was reused as a civilian camp. About 737 internees were imprisoned in the fort. This time, the internees were Indo-European men and boys who refused to swear loyalty to the Japanese authorities. The internees lived under a hard regime.
The fort was built in 1837 to the order of Governor-General Johannes van den Bosch as part of a planned line of defence in today's Kebon Sirih, Menteng. The engineer Colonel Carel van der Wyck designed the building, and Captain Lucius Gerhard Johan George Schonermarck was responsible for construction.
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The location of Fort Van Den Bosch was deliberately made low from the higher surrounding land so that it was hidden and fulfilled the ideal elements for a defensive fortress. However, with the greatness of the Dutch architect at that time in designing the drainage channels, even though the position was lower than the surrounding land, the ...
Fort Van der Wijck, which was built in the early 19th century by General Johannes Van den Bosch, is located in the northern part of the town. [4] The military compound served to train soldiers for later service in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army .
Graaf van den Bosch's governor-generalship (1830–1835) confirmed profitability as the foundation of official policy, restricting its attention to Java, Sumatra and Bangka. [37] However, from about 1840, Dutch national expansionism saw them wage a series of wars to enlarge and consolidate their possessions in the outer islands. [38]
In a 2012 interview with YouKnowIGotSoul.com, Dwele recalled his original ideas for the song and the process of composing it: . I was in L.A. working with G-One and I remember I had a portable CD player and I had burnt a song in the studio and had it in my portable CD player in my headphones on the balcony of my hotel room under palm trees.
Their political autonomy however became increasingly constrained by severe treaties and settlements. Two of these continue to exist as a princely territory within the current independent republic of Indonesia. The four Javanese princely states were: Surakarta, a sunanate to the north; Yogyakarta, the sultanate to the south