Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1811, pashure pokubatanidzwa kwoUmambo hweHolland neFrance mukati mehondo yaNapoleon, Raffles akanga asina chisarudzo kunze kwokusiya nyika. Akatanga basa rechiuto
mukurwisana neDutch neFrance muJava, muDutch East Indies. Hondo yacho yakakurumidza kutungamirirwa naAdmiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, naColonel Robert Rollo Gillespie, avo vakatungamira uto rakarongeka zvakanaka vachipesana neuto rinopikisa revakuru veFrance vane hutungamiri husina kunaka.