Anglo-Dutch War in Java 1810-1811

The governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, Herman Willem Daendels (1762-1818), fortified the island of Java (part of Indonesia) against possible British attack. In 1810 a strong British East India Company expedition under Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto (1751-1814), governor-general of India, conquered the French islands of Burbon (Reunion) and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and the Dutch East Indian possessions of Amboina (Ambon) and the Molucca Islands. Afterward it moved againsts Java, captured the port city of Batavia (Djakarta) in August 1811, and forced the Dutch to surrender at Semarang on September 17, 1811. Java, Palembang (in Sumatra), Macassar (Makasar, Celebes), and Timor were ceded to the British. Appointed lieutenant governor of Java, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) ended oppressive Dutch administrative methods, liberalized the system of land tenure, and extended trade. In 1816, the British returned Java and other East Indian possessions to the Dutch as part of the accord ending the Napoleonic Wars.

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Dictionary of Wars, 15-6.

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