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== Expedition Force ==
== Expedition Force ==
==== Advance Column ====
==== Advance Column ====
''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo_Gillespie Col Robert Rollo Gillespie], commanding''
''[[Robert Rollo Gillespie|Col Robert Rollo Gillespie]], commanding''
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== External Links ==
== External Links ==
===Historical Books Online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/324/mode/2up  Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI - Conquest of Java and Sumatra] archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas06indi#page/324/mode/2up  Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI - Conquest of Java and Sumatra] archive.org
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=vyUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe: or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814 Volume 2''] by John Blakiston of the Madras Engineers 1829 Google Books    
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=9QddAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP8 ''Memoir of the Conquest of Java: With the Subsequent Operations of the British Forces, in the Oriental Archipelago. To which is Subjoined a Statistical and Historical Sketch of Java… with an Account of Its Dependencies''] by Major William Thorn, late Deputy Quarter-Master- General to the Forces serving in Java. 1815 Google Books
:[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JEgVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA118 Page 118] ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir R.R. Gillespie'' [author catalogued as William Thorn] 1816 Google Books. Robert Rollo Gillespie commanded the First Division in the Java Expedition of 1811.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=vyUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe: or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814 Volume 2''] by John Blakiston of the Madras Engineers 1829 Google Books  
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofcommu00will ''The Narrative of a Commuted Pensioner'']  by John Williamson 1838 Archive.org  [https://archive.org/stream/narrativeofcommu00will#page/24/mode/2up Java Expedition] page 26  He was with the [[78th Regiment of Foot]]
*"The Java Hussars" by Hyderabad page 534 [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CavalryJournal.pdf ''The Cavalry Journal, Vol.XX no.78, October 1930''] nzsappers.org.nz . The Java Hussars was raised in 1812 for operation in Java, commanded by Captain L H O'Brien of the Madras Cavalry and disbanded in 1816.
 
===Other===
===Other===
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Java_Expedition_1811 Java Expedition 1811]
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Java_Expedition_1811 Java Expedition 1811] yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk
*[http://asianmil.typepad.com/stage3/2009/05/the-british-invasion-of-java-1811.html The British Invasion of Java 1811] asiamil.typepad.com
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2014/08/the-british-capture-of-java-1811.html "The British capture of Java, 1811"] British Library Asian and African studies blog 11 August 2014.
*[https://rafflesandjavablog.wordpress.com "Raffles and the British Invasion of Java]. Footnotes and Sidelights from the Story of the British Interregnum in Java". The British, (being the East India Company in India) ruled Java to 1816.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160618012458/http://asianmil.typepad.com/stage3/2009/05/the-british-invasion-of-java-1811.html The British Invasion of Java 1811] asiamil.typepad.com, now an archived webpage.
 
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[[Category:Wars and Campaigns]]
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[[Category:Napoleonic War| Java Expedition]]
[[Category:Napoleonic War| Java Expedition]]
[[Category:Java Expedition 1811| Java Expedition]]
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[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Java Expedition]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Java Expedition]]

Latest revision as of 03:17, 13 August 2021

Java Expedition
1811-12
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Java and Sumatra
Combatants:
East India Company Dutch East India Company
Result: Seizure of territory
Medals:
Links:
Category: Java Expedition 1811
See our interactive map of
Java Expedition 1811
locations and routes on Google Maps

Summary

The control of Holland by the French in the Napoleonic War again brought Dutch trading interests in the Indies into conflict with the East India Company. Lord Minto sent an expedition from Madras under Sir Samuel Auchmuty which seized settlements in Java and Sumatra but the conquests were returned to the Dutch in 1815.

Expedition Force

Advance Column

Col Robert Rollo Gillespie, commanding

Right Flank Battalion Major Miller
Left Flank Battalion Major Fraser
Detachment HM 89th Regiment Major Butler
Royal Marines Capt Liardet
Bengal Light Infantry Volunteer Battalion Major Dalton
Governor General's Bodyguard Capt Gall
Pioneers Capt Smithwayte
Horse Artillery Capt Noble
Detachment 22nd Dragoons Major Travers

The Line

Maj-Gen Frederick Wetherall, commanding

Left Brigade
Lt-Col Adams

HM 78th Regiment Major Lindsey
6th Battalion Bengal Volunteers Major Raban
HM 69th Regiment Lt-Col McLeod

Right Brigade
Col Gibbs

HM 59th Regiment Lt-Col McLeod
5th Battalion Bengal Volunteers Capt Griffiths
Lt-Col Watson

The Reserve

Col Wood, commanding

4th Battalion Bengal Volunteers Major Grant
1st Battalion 20th or Marine Regiment Lt-Col Loveday
3rd Battalion Bengal Volunteers
Flank Battalion Major Yule

Additional Detachments

Pioneers
Royal Artillery
Engineers

324 European officers; 123 native officers; 5,144 European rank & file; 5,530 native rank and file; 839 pioneers, lascars etc; Total: 11,960

Biographies

Entries in the Dictionary of Indian Biography 1906
Samuel Auchmuty (1756-1822)
Gilbert Elliot, Lord Minto (1751-1814)
Robert Rollo Gillespie (1766-1814)

External Links

Historical books online

Page 118 A Memoir of Major-General Sir R.R. Gillespie [author catalogued as William Thorn] 1816 Google Books. Robert Rollo Gillespie commanded the First Division in the Java Expedition of 1811.

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