Ku qor sii wadida cutubkan - 1811, kadib markii Boqortooyada Holland ay la wareegtay Faransiiska intii lagu jiray dagaalkii Napoleon, Raffles ma uusan laheyn doorasho kale oo uu wadanka uga baxo. Wuxuu bilaabay safar ciidan.
kasoo horjeeda Dutch-ka iyo Faransiiska ee Java, Dutch East Indies. Dagaalka waxaa si deg deg ah u fuliyay Admiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, iyo Kornayl Robert Rollo Gillespie, oo hoggaaminayay ciidan si fiican u abaabulan oo ka soo horjeeda ciidan ka soo horjeeda oo u badan askarta Faransiiska ah oo aan lahayn hoggaan wanaagsan.