British Order of Battle
Stopford's fleet on his arrival on 9 August to assume command of the expedition, consisted of the following ships, dispersed around the Javanese coast:
| Rear-Admiral Stopford's fleet | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Scipion | Third rate | 74 | Rear-Admiral Hon. Robert Stopford Captain James Johnson |
||
| HMS Illustrious | Third rate | 74 | Commodore William Robert Broughton Captain Robert Festing |
||
| HMS Minden | Third rate | 74 | Captain Edward Wallis Hoare | ||
| HMS Lion | Third rate | 64 | Captain Henry Heathcote | ||
| HMS Akbar | Fifth rate | 44 | Captain Henry Drury | ||
| HMS Nisus | Fifth rate | 38 | Captain Philip Beaver | ||
| HMS President | Fifth rate | 38 | Captain Samuel Warren | ||
| HMS Hussar | Fifth rate | 38 | Captain James Coutts Crawford | ||
| HMS Phaeton | Fifth rate | 38 | Captain Fleetwood Pellew | ||
| HMS Leda | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain George Sayer | ||
| HMS Caroline | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Christopher Cole | ||
| HMS Modeste | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Hon. George Elliot | ||
| HMS Phoebe | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain James Hillyar | ||
| HMS Bucephalus | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain Charles Pelly | ||
| HMS Doris | Fifth rate | 36 | Captain William Jones Lye | ||
| HMS Cornelia | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain Henry Folkes Edgell | ||
| HMS Psyche | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain John Edgcumbe | ||
| HMS Sir Francis Drake | Fifth rate | 32 | Captain George Harris | ||
| HMS Procris | Sloop | 18 | Captain Robert Maunsell | ||
| HMS Barracouta | Sloop | 18 | Captain William Fitzwilliam Owen | ||
| HMS Hesper | Sloop | 18 | Captain Barrington Reynolds | ||
| HMS Harpy | Sloop | 18 | Captain Henderson Bain | ||
| HMS Hecate | Sloop | 18 | Captain Henry John Peachey | ||
| HMS Dasher | Sloop | 18 | Captain Benedictus Marwood Kelly | ||
| HMS Samarang | Sloop | 18 | Captain Joseph Drury | ||
| The British Army troops attached to the force included 12,000 soldiers from the 22nd Light Dragoons; 14th Foot; 59th Foot; 69th Foot; 78th Foot; 89th Foot; 102nd Foot. There were also contingents of the Royal Marines, and several regiments of Madras Native Infantry and Bengal Native Infantry, with half of the overall troop strength consisting of Indian troops of the East India Company. General Samuel Auchmuty was the overall commander, but he delegated the field command to Major General Rollo Gillespie. | |||||
In addition to the official navy forces, the East India Company provided the services of several of their ships, led by the Malabar under Commodore John Hayes. These were the Ariel; Aurora; Mornington; Nautilus; Psyche; Thetis; Vestal. With the transport vessels, and several gunboats captured as the campaign progressed, Stopford commanded nearly a hundred ships.
Read more about this topic: Invasion Of Java (1811)
Famous quotes containing the words british, order and/or battle:
“A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us—i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature—in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)
“In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At this time the task of news-writers is easy, they have nothing to do but to tell that a battle is expected, and afterwards that a battle has been fought, in which we and our friends, whether conquering or conquered, did all, and our enemies did nothing.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)