The Dutch governing coalition of Jan-Jacob Rochussen and Peter Van Bosse resigned after the Dutch legislature narrowly rejected their plans to improve and expand the nation's railway system. F.A. van Hall was charged with forming a new government on February 22, 1860. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Cornelius Fasseur and R.E. Elson, The Politics of Colonial Exploitation: Java, the Dutch, and the Cultivation System (New York, SEAP Publications, 1992), 207.
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