User:Mhatopzz/Dutch conquest of Sumatra
| Dutch East Indies conquest of Sumatra | |||||||||
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| Part of Dutch empire | |||||||||
    Clockwise from top left: Padri War, Aceh War, Siege of Palembang, and Kuta Reh massacre | |||||||||
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The Dutch colonial empire began the conquest of Sumatra in the 19th century by various methods of warfare, treaties, and deposition of monarchs, the Dutch had previously established control over the westcoast of Sumatra and Padang respectively around 1666 to 1668 as a concession land given with the permission of Pagaruyung Kingdom in order to monopolize the gold and pepper trade, besides the Westcoast of Sumatra, Lampung had been annexed by the Dutch East Indies in 1752 from the Banten Sultanate. Other parts of Sumatra such as Bencoolen, had been a British possession since 1685 which was based in Fort Marlborough, present-day Bengkulu province, which was handed over to the Dutch in 1824, along with the acquisition of Eastern coast of Sumatra.