Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten
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Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten (19 February 1755, in
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
.
Van Overstraten was appointed member-extraordinary of the Council of Justice (Raad van Justitie) in
Dutch Council of the Indies in 1789. By 1791 he was Governor and Director of Java's Northeast Coast, in which post he greatly distinguished himself. During his time in the Northeast Coast, he was instrumental in getting Hamengkubuwono I established as the first Sultan of Yogyakarta
. He wrote an historically important memoir for his successor containing information about that area during his term of office.
On 16 August 1796 Pieter van Overstraten was selected as Governor-General. On 17 February 1797,
Napoleon Bonaparte
. He remained in post until his death in Batavia in 1801.
During Van Overstraten's term of office, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was dissolved, Ternate went into British hands, Batavia was blockaded by a British fleet, and the fortifications on the island of Onrust, and on a few other islands, destroyed.
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