Abstract
From the outset the armed forces used by the Dutch in South East Asia, although always rather small, were never made up exclusively of Dutchmen. The United East-India Company soon found it convenient for both military and financial reasons to strengthen its power with locally recruited soldiers and sailors.1 Its European forces, moreover, counted a considerable number of foreigners among their members – mostly Germans, coming to the Netherlands from impoverished areas of the Empire. After the fall of the United East-India Company, its successor (first the Dutch Republic, later on the Kingdom of the Netherlands) continued these arrangements. The Dutch Colonial Army became, as to its European part, a veritable foreign legion, while a majority of its soldiers was recruited from among the Javanese and Amboynese.
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