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Did you know... that army general Abdul Haris Nasution considered the 1945 Battle of Semarang the first major battle for the Indonesian nation?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:53, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Battle of Semarang is considered by Indonesian general Abdul Haris Nasution to be the first major battle involving Indonesia? Source: SIONG, HAN BING (1996). "The Secret of Major Kido: The Battle of Semarang, 15-19 October 1945". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 152 (3). ISSN 0006-2294., p385: " Subsequently a battle raged which according to Nasution (1977:354, see also Hofland 1985) was the first major battle of the Indonesian nation"
- ALT1:... that British accounts noted that Japanese actions during the Battle of Semarang had saved European prisoners of war? Source: Same as above, p414: "So Tuli wrote in his report: 'In the course of their fighting the Japanese, who fought with incredible gal lantry despite losses which with most troops would have been prohibitive, in all cases protected the internment camps from molestation and released numerous Dutch and Eurasian captives from the jail"

Reviewed: Tang Dingyuan

Created by Juxlos (talk). Self-nominated at 21:55, 10 June 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article meets DYK requirements, adequately sourced, no close paraphrasing found, QPQ done. The first hook is the more interesting of the two: I don't have access to the source right now so AGF on that. GTG. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:31, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]