The Raid on Batavia of 27 November 1806 was a successful attempt by a large British naval force to destroy the Dutch squadron based on Java in the Dutch...

Batavia is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, New York, United States. It is located near the center of the county, surrounded by the Town...

launching a major Raid on Batavia harbour on 27 November 1806. As his large squadron sailed into the bay, the surviving Dutch ships were driven on shore to avoid...

Batavia harbour. Following these successes, Pellew was able to bring his main force to bear on the island and in November 1806 launched a major raid on...

approach. Pellew set fire to her as he sailed off at the end of his Raid on Batavia (1806). Phipps (1840), p. 101. Hackman (2001), p. 277. Phipps (1840),...

The siege of Batavia was a military campaign led by Sultan Agung of Mataram to capture the Dutch port-settlement of Batavia in Java. The first attempt...

captured. In November 1806, Admiral Pellew led the main body of his squadron against the capital of the Dutch East Indies at Batavia and a year later eliminated...

Batavia Republic from 1803 to 1806. The VOC lost the colony to Great Britain following the 1795 Battle of Muizenberg, but it was ceded to the Batavia...

to lead an operation against Batavia to eliminate the remainder of the Dutch squadron in November 1806. This second raid was only partially successful...

Troops were landed on 4 August, and by 8 August the undefended city of Batavia capitulated. The defenders withdrew to a previously prepared fortified...

Rainier, his uncle. Zeerob may also have been of sixteen guns. See Raid on Batavia (1806). HMS Java served in the Royal Navy for less than a year before...

HMS Caroline and on 18 October 1806 he fought a successful action in her against the Dutch 36-gun frigate Maria Reijersbergen at Batavia. He captured the...

in September, and Linois reinforced French garrisons at La Réunion and Batavia, and then set out to prey upon British trade in the Indian Ocean. In October...

they set up their own headquarters in Southeast Asia, in the city of Batavia (modern-day Jakarta). This put them safely distant from Goa but opportunistically...

Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean was a commerce raiding operation launched by the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre...

and mid-17th centuries. By the late 17th century, it was overshadowed by Batavia and was finally annexed to the Dutch East Indies in 1813. Its core territory...

the action of 9 July 1806, in operations against the Dutch in the East Indies during the raids on Batavia and Griessie in 1806 and 1807, and finally...

was established in Batavia (now Jakarta), which became the center of the VOC's Asian trading network. To their original monopolies on nutmeg, peppers, cloves...

the Raid on Batavia as a lieutenant in 1806 and was promoted to commander in 1812 while serving at the Siege of Riga. He was given a command on the East...

arriving on 2 April. The Dutch brig Aventurier was left at Batavia and remained there until a raid on the port by a British force in November 1806, when...

the Dutch East India Company (VOC); beforehand it had been governed from Batavia. In 1670, the Zamorin of Calicut ruler was persuaded by his prince to go...

of Lübeck 6 Nov France defeats Prussia and Sweden Napoleonic Wars Raid on Batavia 27 Nov British Royal Navy defeats the Kingdom of Holland. War of the...

James Montgomery (acting) (19 October 1805 – 8 May 1806) Henry William Bentinck (*1765 – †1821) (8 May 1806 – February 1812) Hugh Lyle Carmichael (*1764 –...

French reinforcements appeared. The British captured her in an action on 25 September 1806, and the Royal Navy took Minerve into service as Alceste in March...

importance to the Dutch compared to their previously existing local territory, Batavia. Malacca, established by the Malays in the 1400s, was a significant hub...

remaining 1,000 Bandanese to Batavia. With the Bandanese resistance ended, the Dutch secured their valuable monopoly on the spice trade. The Dutch attacked...

manumitted slaves in Batavia between 1646 and 1649, 126 (59.71%) came from South Asia, including 86 (40.76%) from Bengal. Slave raids into the Bengal estuaries...

Penghu and that China not trade with Manila but only with the Dutch in Batavia and Siam and Cambodia. However, the Dutch found out that unlike smaller...

James Montgomery (acting) (19 October 1805 – 8 May 1806) Henry William Bentinck (*1765 – †1821) (8 May 1806 – February 1812) Hugh Lyle Carmichael (*1764 –...

Pellew. On 27 November they captured or destroyed a frigate, seven brigs, and twenty smaller vessels at the Dutch settlement of Batavia in a raid. In this...