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 6i0 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. C. 1706. J. 1630. H. 1116. The dethroned monarch the Susunan Mas flies to the eastern end of Java and joins Surapati. The Dutch and their allies, with an army of thirty thousand men, take the field against the de- throned Susunan and Surapati. Surapati surprises and defeats a detachment of the Dutch army near Bangil. October I6. — The Dutch attack the fort of Ban- gil, in which Surapati commanded in person, and, after a brave resistance, carry it. — Surapati makes his escape, after receiving a wound, of which he dies three months thereafter. — The Dutch, instead of pursuing the advantage thus gained, retire to Su- rabaya for the rainy season, and give the enemy time to recruit, who become in their turn the assail- ants, insult Surabaya the Dutch head-quarters, and burn and destroy the country around it. C. 1707. J. 1631. H. 1117. The sons of Surapati are defeated by the Dutch and their allies ; they are deprived of the princi- pality which the family had held for twenty years, and the body of Surapati himself, with those of many of his followers, is disinterred, burnt, and the ashes scattered in the air. The prince of Sumanap Sudarma is poignarded by order of the Dutch government, for being im- plicated in the rebellion of Surapati*