Alauddin Mahmud Syah II

The latter had exerted influence on the late sultan and was appointed guardian to the young successor who greatly admired his tutor.

Shortly afterwards Alauddin Mahmud Syah commissioned Habib Abdurrachman to seek political support from the Ottoman Empire whose ruler was still revered by the Acehnese as the Lord of the Faithful.

Meanwhile Panglima Tibang proceeded to Riau where he asked the Dutch authorities for a delay of further negotiations for six months, which was granted.

The American and Italian home governments were not involved, but as news about the negotiations leaked out the Dutch authorities were greatly alarmed.

[5] The Ottoman involvement turned out to be less of a problem; although the mission of Habib Abdurrachman gained some sympathies at the Porte, Turkey was too weak to undertake anything.

[6] The Governor-General in Batavia, James Loudon, considered that the Acehnese sultan must be given the choice of acknowledging Dutch supremacy or face war.

[8] Sultan Alauddin Mahmud Syah, who was sick with cholera, had been evacuated on 15 January and brought to Luëng Bata.

[9] However, the idea held by the Dutch military leadership that the fall of the capital would make an end to the war, proved entirely false.

A new sultan, Alauddin Muhammad Da'ud Syah II, was proclaimed in the next year and would symbolize resistance against the intruders until 1903.