Gerardus Petrus Booms

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Gerardus Petrus Booms
Gerardus Petrus Booms.
Born	(1822-10-29)29 October 1822 Maastricht
Died	23 February 1897(1897-02-23) (aged 74) The Hague
Allegiance	Netherlands
Rank	General
Other work	Politician

Gerardus Petrus Booms (29 October 1822 in Maastricht – 23 February 1897 in The Hague) was a Dutch military leader, author, and politician.

Life

Boom's father and his brothers served under Napoleon ; the father took part in the French occupation of Naarden in the years 1813 and 1814, from where he traveled to France until the moment had come when he could return to his homeland without blemish for his name and breach of his fidelity. Booms was not originally intended for military service, but received a classical education after leaving primary school. Because the city of Maastricht at that time in connection with the Belgian Revolution was rather restless, his parents sent him to a French (his mother was French) boarding school. In 1838 he was posted as a cadet to the Royal Military Academy ; no fewer than 74 aspirants competed for 18 places, of which Booms obtained one after an entrance exam. The Military Academy was then only two years old and was placed under the administration of HG Seelig as governor and IP Delprat as commander. Booms wrote about life at the Academy later: the rules of military discipline were indeed taught, but only in letter, the spirit thereof remained foreign to the cadets. The vocation for the military rank, the whole field of military morality was left fallow.^[1] During this time, Booms read a lot in Walter Scott. He left the Academy in 1842 in the rank of second lieutenant and was posted to the seventh infantry regiment garrisoned at Maastricht.

Booms went on to serve in the military for four years and soon attracted attention for his abilities. In the summer of 1846 he was posted as a teacher of French language and literature at the Military Academy; here he got to know Van Heusden, Knoop and Seelig better. He was influenced by them and became a follower of the teaching that only sound politics could form the soil in which the military could take root and flourish. [2] During this time he acted, among other things, to ensure the legal status of the officer;^[2] this battle brought him into contact with the former soldier TJ Stieltjes [nl] and with Johan Rudolph Thorbecke. Later the outcome of this experience was the Act of 1851 regulating the promotion, dismissal and retirement of officers. Booms had meanwhile become convinced that the true military school for the officer was war: Book and field study and peace exercises, however instructive, are not sufficient preparation for war and I wanted to gain war experience , he wrote. [2] Initially Booms wanted to leave for the Indies , but because things were not so easy at the time, he left for France.

Activities in Algiers

General Seelig applauded Booms' intention and obtained a year's leave for him to France with salary. Seelig gave Booms an edition of

• 1850. Een Frans werk over de Balische oorlogen van 1846-'49 (Breda)
• Vertalingen in het Frans van een paar krijgskundige geschriften van generaal Knoop
• 1851, 1852. Artikelen in de Spectateur militaire, in De Nieuwe Spectator, De Gids, De Indische Gids, enz.
• 1852. Veldtocht van het Fransch-Afrikaansche leger tegen Klein-Kabylië in de eerste helft van 1851 ('s-Hertogenbosch)
• 1852 Militaire statistiek en organisatie van Frankrijk (Nijm.)
• 1867. Oostenr. en Zuid-Duitschland in den oorlog van 1866 tegen Pruisen (Krijgsk. schets, Schiedam)
• 1875. Een weerlegging in het Frans van het werk van de Belgische generaal Eenens over de Belgische Opstand (Den Haag)
• 1878. Kissingen, eene episode uit den oorlog van 1866 in Duitschland (Schiedam, 1870)
• 1878. Een maarschalk van het tweede Keizerrijk en eene Fransche kolonie, studiën over Algerije ('s-Gravenh.)
• 1881. De eerste Atjehsche expeditie en hare enquête, historische kritiek (Amst.)
• 1881. Een slotwoord over de eerste Atjehsche expeditie (Amst.)
• 1884. In memoriam. Een niet uitgesproken rede bij het graf van generaal Hendrik Frederik Karel Duycker. Militaire Spectator. Pages 450-455.
• 1887. Het eerste boek van Neerlands krijgsgeschiedenis, de Batavieren, Caninefaten en Friezen onder en tegen Rome ('s-Gravenh.).
• 1892. Generaal Booms. Eigen Haard. Pages 435-438, episode 28. Download link dit artikel as ePub in the collection of the Atlas Van Stolk.
• 1897. J.T.T.C. van Dam van Isselt. G.P. Booms overleden. Militaire Spectator. Pages 363-395.

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