Architecture Fort Marlborough

Citadel is a military locations or buildings erected specifically, reinforced and covered used to protect an installation, area, troops from enemy attack or for control of an area.

Some Marlborough fort building components include:

Revaline is angled three defense building, generally located at the top of the trench in front curtine connected by bridge to the fort buildings. At Marlborough fort, part revaline initially serves as a defense. However, during later functioned as well as social facilities. This is evidenced by the three pieces of the tomb is the tomb of Thomas Parr, Charles Murray and Robert Hamilton. In addition to the three tombs tesebut there are also four plaque is in English pasted on the walls of the entrance gate that reads: George Thomas Shaw, who died on 25 April 1704, Richard Watts, who died December 17, 1705 at the age of 44 years, Henry Stirling who died in April 1744 at the age of 25 years and Capt. James Coney, who died in February 1737 at the age of 36 years.

Outside the building there is a moat around the castle with a moat depth of 1-3 meters and a width of 7 meters. The roving ditch used as a first defense against enemy attacks and disposal of water flow from the fortress. To connect with curtine part revaline built a bridge as a link. Curtine a major defensive wall revaline a fortress located between two bastions.

Bastion is the part that juts out located at each corner of the fort. Keletakannya allows one to shoot without having to show himself and can shoot in any direction freely. Was first developed by the Italians in the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century. At Fort Marlborough there are four bastions that bastion northern, eastern bastion, bastion southern and western bastion. Bastion West had a room that functioned as a prison as much as two-room and basement.

Building between the eastern and southern bastions, there are 5 rooms with connecting doors that overall as much as 13 pieces shaped door bars. Building the southern bastion and bastion west is divided into two sections separated by a hallway main gate. Buildings west side consists of three rooms separated by a partition wall. Building east, there are seven rooms were constrained by the bulkhead wall. Building between western and northern bastion currently only trace of the former floor of the building, the shape of the building can not be unknown anymore. Building between the north and eastern bastion is divided into two buildings separated by a hallway behind the gate. On the west side door of the building consists of three rooms. Building the east side of the door consists of 4 rooms.

At Fort Marlborough there are four turrets at the top of the bastion. Each one cannon on bastion to the north and south, two cannons in eastern bastion, with the kind of caliber cannon 10 cm.

Fort Marlborough function as the center of defense at the time of the UK to be reduced, and functioned as a trading base. This was shown in 1803 the EIC Board decided to make Fort Marlborough as a center for spice stockpiling of English throughout the East Indies.

Piso Gaja Dompak, Batak People Inheritance

Piso Gaja Dompak are traditional weapons originating from North Sumatra. The name piso gaja dompak taken from the word which means the blade piso functioned for cutting or piercing, and the shape of the pointed and sharp. Called gaja dompak, look like elephant carving as it means on the gun handle.

Piso Gaja Dompak, Batak typical weapon is the inheritance of the Kingdom of Batak. The existence of these weapons cannot be separated from its role in the development of the Kingdom of Batak. This weapon is used only among Kings only. Considering this weapon is also a Royal heirloom, this weapon is not created to kill or injure others. As heirlooms, this weapon is considered to have supernatural powers, who will provide spiritual strength to its owner. This weapon is also the objects dikultuskan and ownership of this weapon is limited to the descendants of the Kings or in other words it was not owned by those outside the Kingdom.

There has been no historical records which mention when exactly Piso Gaja Dompak become an heirloom for the Kingdom of Batak. However, the search results from author Piso King Dompak is closely related to the leadership of King Sisingamaraja i. it is based on the trust of the community against the myth derived from oral traditions recorded in the script.

Tells about a man named Bona Ni Onan, youngest son of King Sinambela. Told during a trip home from afar, Bona Ni Onan found his wife Boru Borbor old is pregnant. He doubted that his wife's womb. Until one night he dreamed of, when the spirit. It said that child in the womb of his wife was the avatar Spirit Bathala and later the child will be King termed Sisingamaraja.

Bona Ni Onan then ensure the dream the truth to his wife. His wife else told me that while he was bathing in sulu – sulu spear (jungle), he heard a roar and Saw the light took possession of his body. After learning that she is pregnant. He also believed that at that time he met the spirit of Bathala.

The period of her pregnancy reached 19 months and the birth of his son ever accompanied a storm of Typhoon and earthquake. By his son's hence he named Manghuntal meaning earthquake rumbling. Go mature Manghuntal started the magical properties showed that reinforces predictions that he is the future King.

In adolescence, Manghuntal went to see the King, raja Mahasakti Uti to gain recognition. At the time he was about to meet the King of Uti, he waited while eating food serve by the wife of the King. When it accidentally he found King Uti hiding in the roof with a snout like a pig.

King Uti ever say hello to manghuntal, he also conveys his return met the King and asked for a white elephant. King Uti ever willing to give to the terms Manghuntal should bring sign-sign from around the region of Toba, Manghuntal ever did. After that Manghuntal back to meet the King of Uti by bringing the terms of Uti. King Uti then gave a white elephant as well as two Royal heirloom that is Dompak and an Elephant Piso spear frontage Hujur Siringis.

Allegedly, Piso Gaja Dompak cannot be released from pembungkusnya except by people who have supernatural powers and Manghuntal can open it. Post it Manghuntal really be King Sisingamaraja I. until recently Batak still trust this myth.

In addition to the inheritance that is so respected and dikultuskan, Piso Gaja Dompak this contains a symbol-a symbol of a meaningful philosophical. Tapered shape of this weapon, in the Batak language called Rantos meaningful intellectual acuity and intelligence thinking. A sharp look at the problems and opportunities, as well as in drawing conclusions and act.

Batak leaders implied that must have the sharpness of thought and intelligence in a saw an issue. Always conduct the deliberations in taking decisions and to take an action as a form of ' wit and acuity to think and view issue '.

Berpenampang elephant carvings allegedly taken from myths provide piso gaja dompak and a white elephant in the Manghuntal or Sisingamaraja i. Piso Gaja Dompak is greatness had taken the leaders of batak, batak leaders have the intellectual intelligence to do justice to the people and responsible to the Lord.

According to the results of the interviews with the grandson of Raja Napatar Sisingamaraja XII, one of the sources mention that Gaja Dompak was in Piso's National Museum. While other sources mention that the weapon or heirloom Piso Gaja Dompak located in one of the museums in the Netherlands along with stamps of the Kingdom of Sisingamaraja.

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