Kammala wannan jumla: Louis Bonaparte ya nada Janssens Sakatare Janar na Ma'aikatar Yaƙi a lokacin dawowarsa. Ya rike jerin manyan mukamai na gudanarwa a cikin masarautar har zuwa lokacin da Louis Napoleon ya yi watsi da mulkinsa da kuma hadewar Netherlands da Faransa a 1810. A ranar 11 ga Nuwamba, 1810, an nada shi babban gwamnan yankin da aka sani, kafin a haɗe shi, a matsayin Dutch East Indies, ya maye gurbin Herman Willem Daendels. Ya isa Batavia, Java a ranar 15 ga Mayu 1811 kuma nan da nan ya tsunduma cikin kokarin karfafa tsaron mulkin mallaka. Java ta amfana daga yawan sojojin Holland da Faransa, da kuma ingantaccen kariya, idan aka kwatanta da Cape Colony. Duk da haka, da
Jirgin ruwan mamaye na Burtaniya ya isa jim kaɗan bayan haka, a ranar 30 ga Yuli, wanda Sir Samuel Auchmuty ya jagoranta.