Seminar ‘An European Empire in the Dutch Indies? Reflections on Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch Colonial Army’ | Bernhard Schär
KITLV, Room 138 Reuvensplaats 2, LeidenFrom its inception in 1816 to around 1900 the Dutch Colonial Army (from 1830 onwards known as KNIL) recruited up to 50% of its European soldiers from outside the Netherlands. Non-Dutch troops came mostly