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 | | As such, KNIL was involved in many campaigns against indigenous groups in the Netherlands East Indies including the Padri War (1821-1845), the Java War (1825-1830), crushing the Puputan (the final resistance of Bali inhabitants to colonial rule) of 1849, and the prolonged Aceh War (1873-1901). |
 | | Following World War II, the KNIL was used in two large military campaigns in 1947 and 1948 to re-establish Dutch control of Indonesia during which. |
 | | Until the Aceh War, it recruited many Europeans of other nationalities (especially Germans, Belgians and Swiss), native (Malukans, Timorese, and Manadonese) and even the Ashanti, an African tribe from the present Ghana, to fight in the jungles of the East Indies. |
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