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==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:<ref name="James33"/> {| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;" |- valign="top" ! colspan="6" style="background:white;"|Rear-Admiral Stopford's fleet |- valign="top"|- valign="top" ! style="width:20%; text-align:center;"| <small> Ship </small> ! style="width:15%; text-align:center;"| <small> Rate </small> ! style="width:5%; text-align:center;"| <small> Guns </small> ! style="width:5%; text-align:center;"| <small> Navy </small> ! style="width:25%; text-align:center;"| <small> Commander </small> ! style="width:29%; text-align:center;"| <small>Notes</small> |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Scipion|1805|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Third rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 74 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Rear-Admiral Hon. [[Robert Stopford (Royal Navy officer)|Robert Stopford]]<br />Captain James Johnson | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Illustrious|1803|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Third rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 74 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commodore [[William Robert Broughton]]<br>Captain Robert Festing | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Minden|1810|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Third rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 74 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain Edward Wallis Hoare | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Lion|1777|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Third rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 64 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[Henry Heathcote]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| [[HMS Cornwallis (1805)|HMS ''Akbar'']] | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 44 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain Henry Drury | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Nisus|1810|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[Philip Beaver]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| [[French frigate Président|HMS ''President'']] | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[Samuel Warren (Royal Navy officer)|Samuel Warren]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Hussar|1807|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[James Coutts Crawford]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Phaeton|1782|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 38 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[Fleetwood Pellew]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| HMS ''Leda'' | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[George Sayer (Royal Navy officer)|George Sayer]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Caroline|1795|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[Christopher Cole (Royal Navy officer)|Christopher Cole]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Modeste|1793|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[George Elliot (Royal Navy officer, born 1784)|George Elliot]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Phoebe|1795|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[James Hillyar]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Bucephalus|1808|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain Charles Pelly | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Doris|1808|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 36 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain William Jones Lye | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Cornelia|1808|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 32 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain Henry Folkes Edgell | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Psyche|1805|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 32 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain [[John Edgcumbe]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Sir Francis Drake|1805|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Fifth rate]] | style="text-align:center;"| 32 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Captain George Harris | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Procris|1806|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Brig-sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander Robert Maunsell | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| HMS ''Barracouta'' | style="text-align:center;"| [[Brig-sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander [[William Fitzwilliam Owen]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Hesper|1809|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Ship-sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander [[Barrington Reynolds]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Harpy|1796|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Sloop-of-war|Sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"|Commander Henderson Bain | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| {{HMS|Hecate|1809|6}} | style="text-align:center;"| [[Brig-sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander [[Henry Peachey, 3rd Baron Selsey|Henry John Peachey]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| HMS ''Dasher'' | style="text-align:center;"| [[Sloop-of-war|Sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander [[Benedictus Marwood Kelly]] | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | style="text-align:left;"| [[Dutch corvette Scipio (1784)|HMS ''Samarang'']] | style="text-align:center;"| [[Sloop-of-war|Sloop]] | style="text-align:center;"| 18 | style="text-align:center;"| [[Image:Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] | style="text-align:left;"| Commander Joseph Drury | style="text-align:left;"| |- valign="top" | colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"|In addition to the vessels of the Royal Navy, the East India Company provided the services of several of their ships, led by ''Malabar'' under Commodore [[John Hayes (explorer)|John Hayes]]. The EIC vessels included ''Ariel'', {{ship|HCS|Aurora|1809|2}}, ''Mornington'', ''Nautilus'', ''Psyche'', ''Thetis'', and ''Vestal''. |- valign="top" | colspan="6" style=text-align:left;|{{see also|Transport vessels for the British invasion of Java (1811)}} When one adds in the transport vessels, and several gunboats captured as the campaign progressed, Stopford commanded nearly a hundred ships.<ref name="James33"/> |- valign="top" | colspan="6" style="text-align:left;"|The [[British Army]] troops attached to the force included 12,000 soldiers from the [[22nd Dragoons|22nd Light Dragoons]], [[West Yorkshire Regiment|14th Foot]], [[59th (2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot|59th Foot]], [[69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot|69th Foot]], [[78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot|78th Foot]]; [[89th (The Princess Victoria's) Regiment of Foot|89th Foot]], and [[New South Wales Corps|102nd Foot]]. The Navy provided contingents of the [[Royal Marines]]. The EIC contributed several regiments of Madras Native Infantry and Bengal Native Infantry, with half of the overall troop strength consisting of EIC Indian troops. General [[Samuel Auchmuty (British Army officer)|Samuel Auchmuty]] was the overall commander, but he delegated the field command to Major General [[Rollo Gillespie]].<ref name=Fregosi321/> |}
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