Java Expedition

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
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Category: Java Expedition 1811

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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 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 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 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
HM 14th Regiment	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

External Links

Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol VI - Conquest of Java and Sumatra archive.org
Java Expedition 1811