Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 22.04.2005
FRENCH & NAPOLEONIC WARS, 1793-1815
Dutch East Indies
1796-1816
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours 		  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
  External Links
 
   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
   Commanders
 
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   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
 
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in bold face) 		Regiments
(regiments awarded Battle Honours are shown in bold face)
Note: Battle Honours were awarded as noted below.
signifies clasp to campaign medal.
First British Occupation, 1796-1805
Moluccas
1796 Feb. 17
Amboyna
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1810 battle)
Inf: 2/ME(2coys) 3/ME(flankcoys) M17
 
1796 Mar.
Banda
(aka: Banda Nera, or Nutmeg Is.)
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1810 battle)
Inf: 2/ME(det) 3/ME(det) M17(7coys)
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
1801 Feb. 11
Ternate
Inf: ME(det) B1(det) BMR(det) MP ByM VolBn
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
1801 May 8 Koya-Meira
[Ternate]
Inf: ME(det) B1(det) BMR(det) MP ByM VolBn
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
1801 May 8-22 Talangnamy
[Ternate]
Inf: ME(det) B1(det) BMR(det) MP ByM VolBn(det)
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
1801 May 22-
  1801 June 21		 Fort Orange
[Ternate]
Inf: ME(det) B1(det) BMR(det) MP ByM VolBn(det)
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
1801 Apr. 23-
  1801 June 21
Ternate
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1810 battle)
Inf: ME(det) B1(det) BMR(det) MP ByM VolBn(det)
Inf: WirtembergCoy
 
Second British Occupation, 1810-1816
Moluccas
1810 Feb. 17-18
Amboyna
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1796 battle)
Inf: ME(1coy) RM RN
 
1810 Aug. 9
Banda
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1796 battle)
Inf: ME(3coys) RM RN
 
1810 Aug. 28
Ternate
awarded 1841 (jointly for 1801 battle)
Inf: ME(det) RM RN
Inf: Amboynese(det)
 
Java
1811 Aug. 10 Weltervreeden
Cav: LD22 Inf: 1/F69(ltcoy) 1/F78(flankcoys) 1/F89(flankcoys)
Inf: VB/BNI
 
1811 Aug. 26 Meester Cornelis
Cav: LD22 Inf: 1/F14 1/F59 1/F89
Inf: 4VB/BNI 5VB/BNI 6VB/BNI
 
1811 Sep. 12-17 Samarang
Cav: LD22(tp) Inf: 1/F14 1/F78
Inf: 3VB/BNI(grencoy)
 
1811 Aug. 4-
   1811 Sep. 16
Java
awarded 1818-1829
Cav: LD22 LD25(det)
Inf: 1/F14 1/F59 1/F69 1/F78 1/F89
Cav: GGBG Arty: Mad Engr: MSM
Inf: 1VB/BNI 2VB/BNI 3VB/BNI 4VB/BNI 5VB/BNI 6VB/BNI VB/MNI
 
Sumatra
1812 Mar. Palembang
Inf: 1/F89
 
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
   Societies, Forums & Re-Enactors
   Museums & Memorials
   Bibliography
How to Find Books
  Books:
  Panular, Bendara Pangeran Arya ; Carey, P. B. The British in Java, 1811-1816 : a Javanese account : a text edition, English synopsis and commentary on British Library Additional Manuscript 12330 (Babad Bedhah ing Ngayogyakarta). [London] : British Academy, 1988 (Oriental documents ; 10) ISBN: 0197260624
Thorn, William. 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. London, T. Egerton, 1815.
Bernhard, Karl, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Précis de la campagne de Java, en 1811. La Haye : T. Lejeune, 1834.
Wolter, John A. The Napoleonic War in the Dutch East Indies: an Essay and Cartobibliography of the Minto Collection. Washington : Library of Congress, 1999. (Philip Lee Phillips Society Occasional Paper ; no.2)
 
 
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