The War of Independence

The infant republic was soon faced
with military threats to its very existence. British troops landed
in Indonesia as a contingent of the Allied Forces to disarm the
Japanese. Dutch troops also seized this opportunity to land in the
country, but for a different purpose, - namely, to regain control of
the former East Indies. At the beginning they were assisted by
British troops under General Christison, a fact later admitted by
Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Commander of the Allied Forces in
Southeast Asia based in Myanmar. In fact, the British troops were
officially only assigned to the task of repatriating Allied
prisoners of war and internees.

On November 10, 1945, fierce fighting
broke out between British troops and Indonesian freedom fighters in
which the British lost Brigadier Mallaby. As a result, the British
turned to an all-out combat from the sea, air and land. The
newly-recruited army of the Republic soon realized the superiority
of the British forces and withdrew from urban battles. They
subsequently formed guerrilla units and fought together with armed
groups of the people.

Under the pretext of representing the
Allied Forces, the Dutch sent in more troops to attack Indonesian
strongholds. Between 1945 and 1949 they undertook two military
actions.

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