Double folded sheet with on the inside two images of the inside and outside of a flag or banner captured at Baroes during the campaign against the Acehnese army commander Al-Iskander, 1840. Acehnese flag, with moon and scimitar and inscriptions in Arabic. On the front of the sheet the story of the capture of the flag by Carel Heinrich Bischoff and his death on May 3, 1840. On the reverse a description of the flag and inscriptions, The Flag of the Acehnese Captured at Baros, 1840, intermediary draughtsman: Abraham Wilhelm Theodorus Juynbol, (mentioned on object), printer: Koninklijke

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Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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