British Bencoolen

British Bencoolen
British Bencoolen
Residency of British India
1685–1824
	Flag
	; Map of Bencoolen in 1797, Fort Marlborough can be seen on the top of the map.
Capital	Fort Marlborough
History
• Established	1685
• Treaty of London 1824	2 June 1824
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Bantam
	Ambon
Bencoolen
Today part of	Indonesia

British Bencoolen, variously known during its existence as Fort York, Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, Benkulu, or "the West Coast",^[1] was a possession of the British East India Company (EIC) extending nearly 500 miles (800 km) along the southwestern coast of Sumatra and centered on the area of what is now Bengkulu City. The EIC established a presence there in 1685,^[2] and in 1714 it built Fort Marlborough there. The United Kingdom ceded Bencoolen to the Netherlands in 1824.

^ John Keay, The Honourable Company - A History of the English East India Company, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1994 (1991) p. 248.
^ Cite error: The named reference Olson1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] John Keay, The Honourable Company - A History of the English East India Company, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1994 (1991) p. 248.

[Olson1996-2] Cite error: The named reference Olson1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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