Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muna 1811, pashure pokunge Umambo hweHolland hwatorwa neFrance muhondo yaNapoleon, Raffles haana zvaaigona kuita kunze kwokutiza munyika yacho. Akakwira
nhimbe yehondo mukurwisana navaDutch navaFrance 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.