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The“De marchlaaste towardsronde” BataviaDe Bataafse evacuatie” or the fall of Batavia as it’sits sometimes called is the name given to the final months of fighting of the eastEast indies crisis and. the war its final period. Theis periodoften camesaid to anhave endended onat exactly 23:48 11 November 1976, when the last Dutch ship left the port of Batavia and when the EILFSoendanese finallyrebels took all ofover the city after a brutal siege.

Historians mark the start of the march“De towardslaaste Bataviaronde” when prime minister HavermanHaberman accepted the Krijgmacht her so-called Vetrek“vertrek” operation. The operation in detail laid out the withdrawal of Dutch & KNIL forces from the various theatres of operations in the archipelago., Itit was not a fullcomplete withdrawal but rather a slow methodical withdrawal thattoward wouldstrategic seeand adefensible pull-outpositions. andIt relocationwould overtimebe tofrom strategicthere locations while increasingthat the airfinal anddeparture navalwould attacks,be inorganized. theDuring end,this ittime wasthe plannedDutch outwould thatmaintain fromfull-on thoseair finaland holdoutsnaval theysupremacy wouldand pullkeep outraids entirelyat to safea zonesmaximum. While onOn paper itthis plan was a good plan in practice tho once implemented it became a bloody affair as the fighting withdrawalwithdrawals waswere intense and the. Dutch soldiers showedhad nofought mercyin andan inarchipelago somefor cases16 brutal years, indoctrinated by over a decade of propaganda were unwilling to just let go without a fight. the numerousfinal KNILbattles unitsand wentoperations rogue,were creatingthus casesoften whereconsidered Dutchbrutal soldiersas foughtentire againststockpiles KNILof forcesmunitions were emptied.