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== Summary ==
The control of Holland by the [[French]] in the [[:Category:Napoleonic War|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''
{|
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|Right Flank Battalion || Major Miller ||
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|Left Flank Battalion || Major Fraser ||
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|Detachment 89th Regiment || Major Butler ||
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|Royal Marines || Capt Liardet ||
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|Bengal Light Infantry Volunteer Battalion || Major Dalton ||
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|Governor-General's Bodyguard|| Capt Gall ||
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|Pioneers || Capt Smithwayte ||
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|Horse Artillery || Capt Noble ||
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|Detachment 22nd Dragoons || Major Travers<br>
|}
==== The Line ====
''Maj-Gen Wetherall, commanding''<br>
'''Left Brigade'''<br>
''Lt-Col Adams''
{|
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|HM 78th Regiment || Major Lindsey ||
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|6th Battalion Bengal Volunteers || Major Raban ||
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|HM 69th Regiment || Lt-Col McLeod ||
|}
'''Right Brigade'''<br>
''Col Gibbs''
{|
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|HM 59th Regiment || Lt-Col McLeod ||
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|5th Battalion Bengal Volunteers || Capt Griffiths ||
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|HM 14th Regiment || Lt-Col Watson ||
|}
==== The Reserve ====
''Col Wood, commanding''
{|
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|4th Battalion Bengal Volunteers || Major Grant ||
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|1st Battalion 20th or Marine Regiment || Lt-Col Loveday ||
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|3rd Battalion Bengal Volunteers || ||
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|Flank Battalion || Major Yule ||
|}
'''Additional Detachments'''
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|Pioneers || ||
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|Royal Artillery || ||
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|Engineers || ||
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|}
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 ==
[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<br>
