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Oct 27, 2018 · Abstract. Oilfields can easily turn into battlefields. This happened more than once in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the 1940s, where Japanese, Dutch, Allied and Indonesian forces fought fierce battles over the control of the local oil facilities.
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The collection comprises cartographic material of the former Dutch colonies of present-day Indonesia, Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles and the regions of the Dutch East- and West-India companies (VOC and WIC).
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Download Free PDF. The battle for oil in the Dutch East Indies. Ben Wallis de Vries. 2018. Oilfields can easily turn into battlefields. This happened more than once in the colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in the 1940s, where Japanese, Dutch, Allied and Indonesian forces fought fierce battles over the control of the local oil facilities.
Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much larger area of the Residency of Batavia in the present-day Indonesian provinces of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Allied forces attempted unsuccessfully to defend the islands.
- 8 December 1941-9 March 1942 [ 1]
- Japanese victory
- Dutch East Indies
- Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
This introduction demonstrates the scope of the series of essays and aims to give a brief overview of the history which starts in pre-colonial times and ends in the present day. Figure 1: Map of the Dutch colonial possessions in 1840 – including Dutch East Indies, Curaçao and Dependencies, Suriname and Dutch Gold Coast.
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The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
