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First expedition to Palembang

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1956085 ↗
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The first expedition to Palembang was a punitive expedition carried out Dutch forces, including the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, against the Palembang Sultanate in 1819. It ended in a failure for the Dutch.

See also

Second expedition to Palembang

Sources

1900. W.A. Terwogt. Het land van Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Geschiedenis van de Nederlanders in oost-Indië. P. Geerts. Hoorn

1900. G. Kepper. Wapenfeiten van het Nederlands Indische Leger; 1816-1900.

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This entry incorporates text from “First expedition to Palembang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.