The Dutch–Bone wars (1824–1906) were a series of conflicts between the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

and the

Bone state Bone (also ''Boni'', or ''Bone Saoraja'') was a sultanate in the south-west peninsula of what is now Sulawesi (formerly Celebes), a province of modern-day Indonesia. It came under Dutch rule in 1905, and was succeeded by the Bone Regency. C ...

in southern

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

(Celebes).The numbering scheme used here is from Thomas Gibson (2005), ''And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar'' (University of Hawaii Press). *

First Bone War The First Bone War was a series of punitive expeditions of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army against the Bone state in South Sulawesi in 1824–25. Bone had been an ally of the Dutch East India Company since the Treaty of Bungaya of 1667, ...

(1824–25) *

Second Bone War The Second Bone WarThomas Gibson, ''And the Sun Pursued the Moon: Symbolic Knowledge and Traditional Authority Among the Makassar'' (University of Hawaii Press, 2005), pp. 200ff. was fought from 20 February 1859 until 20 January 1860 between the f ...

(1859–60) * Third Bone War (1905–06)

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