is a list ofgovernors, deputy governors, residents, and lieutenant-governorsof the presidency and residency versions of British Bencoolen. Subordinated...
British Bencoolen, variously known during its existence as Fort York, Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Benkulu, or "the West Coast", was a possession of the British...
colonial official who served as the governorof the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieutenant-governorofBencoolen between 1818 and 1824. Raffles...
[bəŋˈkulu]), historically known as Bencoolen, is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southwest coast of Sumatra. It was formed on 18 November...
of Sumatra, then a British colony called British Bencoolen (now Bengkulu), during an expedition run by the recently appointed Lieutenant-Governorof Bencoolen...
in the service of the British East India Company. He served as the deputy-governorofBencoolen from 1712 to 1717 and as governorof the Madras Presidency...
council constituted the higher court of appeal. Macrae also exposed the corrupt practises of the Deputy GovernorofBencoolen & Sumatra, Joseph George Walsh...
unprofitable settlements of Penang and Bencoolen. In his time as Governorof the Dutch East Indies, Raffles had compiled The History of Java and had John Leyden...
Englishman who was the GovernorofBencoolen (now Bengkulu, Indonesia), entered into a preliminary agreement with the Temenggung of Johor, Abdul Rahman Sri...
Raffles, an officer of the British East India Company and Lieutenant-GovernorofBencoolen, in an attempt to counter Dutch domination of trade in the East...
Lieutenant-GovernorofBencoolen, established a trading post in Singapore. Raffles had been searching for a new settlement that could be used as an outpost of the...
for the sultanate. In 1818, Sir Stamford Raffles was appointed as governorofBencoolen in western Sumatra. He was convinced that the British needed to...
Stamford Raffles left Bencoolen on board the Indiana under the command of Captain James Pearl to establish a new settlement at the south of Malacca. 27 January...
Stamford Raffles became the Lieutenant-GovernorofBencoolen, now known as Bengkulu, in Indonesia. In the autumn of that same year, in order to counter the...
British in 1945 at the end of WWII. Marsh Garden (1970). Victoria Pond. A nine-hole golf course. A burial place ofBencoolen Muslims who came to Singapore...
resulted in the exchange of the British settlement ofBencoolen (on Sumatra) for the Dutch colony of Malacca and undisputed control of Singapore. The Settlements...
series of trips, first to the island of Lombok, to meet his brother John and transfer to a larger ship, and then to the EIC fort at Bencoolen (modern...
colony, which was accepted by governorof Ambon, Alexander Cornabé. The territory was restored to the Dutch at the Peace of Amiens in 1802, but the Dutch...
(560 ft) southeast of the fortress. The British transferred Bengkulu, then known as Bencoolen, to Dutch control under the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824, which defined...
the earliest Singapore's project of George Drumgoole Coleman. Coleman, who waited for Raffles to return from Bencoolen, Sumatra for four months, in the...
Lieutenant Governorof the British colony at Bencoolen. Raffles believed that the British should find a way to challenge the dominance of the Dutch in...
as the governorof the Dutch Cape Colony and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Born in Nijmegen, his military career began at the age of nine when...
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