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Jan Willem Janssens

1762–1838 · 19th century

Jan Willem Janssens was a Dutch general and colonial governor. As governor of the Cape Colony for the Batavian Republic from 1803 he was defeated by the British in 1806, and as governor-general of the Dutch East Indies under Napoleon he surrendered Java to a British invasion force in September 1811. He later served as Dutch minister of war.

Jan Willem Janssens
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