Invasion of Java (1811)

The Invasion of Java in 1811 was a successful British amphibious operation against the Dutch East Indian island of Java that took place between August and September 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars. Originally established as a colony of the Dutch Republic, Java remained in Dutch hands throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which time the French invaded the Republic and established the Batavian Republic in 1795, and the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. The Kingdom of Holland was annexed to the First French Empire in 1810, and Java became a titular French colony, though it continued to be administered and defended primarily by Dutch personnel.

Author: enSir Stamford Raffles
Caption: enBritish army landing at Cilincing, Java.
Casualties: 1000; 2000
Causalties: 1,000
Combatant: *22pxEast India Company; First French Empire; United Kingdom
Combatant: enFirst French Empire; enUnited Kingdom * 22px East India Company
Commander: enRobert Rollo Gillespie; enRobert Stopford; enSamuel Auchmuty
Commander: Jan Willem Janssens
Commander: Jan Willem Janssens
Commander: Robert Rollo Gillespie; Robert Stopford (Royal Navy officer); Samuel Auchmuty (British Army officer)
Comment: enThe Invasion of Java in 1811 was a successful British amphibious operation against the Dutch East Indian island of Java that took place between August and September 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars. Originally established as a colony of the Dutch Republic, Java remained in Dutch hands throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which time the French invaded the Republic and established the Batavian Republic in 1795, and the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. The Kingdom of Holland was annexed to the First French Empire in 1810, and Java became a titular French colony, though it continued to be administered and defended primarily by Dutch personnel.
Conflict: enInvasion of Java
Date: 18 September 1811
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Has abstract: enThe Invasion of Java in 1811 was a successful British amphibious operation against the Dutch East Indian island of Java that took place between August and September 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars. Originally established as a colony of the Dutch Republic, Java remained in Dutch hands throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, during which time the French invaded the Republic and established the Batavian Republic in 1795, and the Kingdom of Holland in 1806. The Kingdom of Holland was annexed to the First French Empire in 1810, and Java became a titular French colony, though it continued to be administered and defended primarily by Dutch personnel. After the fall of French colonies in the West Indies in 1809 and 1810, and a successful campaign against French possessions in Mauritius in 1810 and 1811, attention turned to the Dutch East Indies. An expedition was dispatched from India in April 1811, while a small squadron of frigates was ordered to patrol off the island, raiding shipping and launching amphibious assaults against targets of opportunity. Troops were landed on 4 August, and by 8 August the undefended city of Batavia capitulated. The defenders withdrew to a previously prepared fortified position, , which the British besieged, capturing it early in the morning of 26 August. The remaining defenders, a mixture of Dutch and French regulars and native militiamen, withdrew, pursued by the British. A series of amphibious and land assaults captured most of the remaining strongholds, and the city of Salatiga surrendered on 16 September, followed by the official capitulation of the island to the British on 18 September. The island remained in British hands for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars, but was restored to the Dutch in the Convention of London in 1814.
Hypernym: Operation
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IsPartOfMilitaryConflict: Napoleonic Wars
Is primary topic of: Invasion of Java (1811)
Label: enInvasion of Java (1811)
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Name: enInvasion of Java
Partof: enthe Napoleonic Wars
Place: Java
Place: Java
Result: British victory
Result: enBritish victory
SameAs: 54YJz; Britisch-Niederländischer Krieg um Java; Guerra anglo-olandese per Giava; Guerre anglo-néerlandaise de Java; Invasão britânica de Java; Invasion of Java (1811); m.02q6r0; Penyerbuan Jawa (1811); Perang Jawa Belanda-England; Q918132; Wojna angielsko-holenderska o Jawę; Вторжение на Яву (1811); غزو جاوة (1811); 英荷爪哇战争; 자바 침공
SeeAlso: Transport vessels for the British invasion of Java (1811)
Strength: 12,000 soldiers(mostlyBengali andMadrasisoldiers); 25 warships; Unknown
Strength: enUnknown; 12000; 25
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Territory: French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
Territory: French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
Text: enThe intimacy between this prince [Pakubuwana IV] and the Sepoys first commenced from his attending ceremonies of their religious worship, which was Hindu, and assisting them with several idols of that worship which had been preserved in his family. The conspirators availing themselves of the predilection of the prince for the religion of his ancestors, flattered him by addressing him as a descendant of the great Ráma [Rama], and a deliberate plan was formed, the object of which was to place the European provinces once more under a Hindu power. Had this plan been attended with success, it would probably have been followed by the almost immediate and general reconversion of the Javanese themselves to the Hindu faith; enthe Hindus appear to have been gratified at discovering relics of their ancient religion and faith [in Java] and to have received without dislike a country in which they found themselves so much at home...the sepoys always pointed out that Java was the land of Brama. This they would say was the country in which their gods took delight; this must be the country described in their sacredbooks and not Hindustan, which, if ever the abode of the gods must have since been strangely altered, and that it was a sin and a shame that the land of Brama should remain in the hands of infidels
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