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The '''Java campaign of 1806–1807''' was a minor campaign during the [[Napoleonic Wars]] by British [[Royal Navy]] forces against a naval squadron of the [[Kingdom of Holland]], a client state of the [[First French Empire|French Empire]], based on the island of [[Java]] in the [[Dutch East Indies]]. Seeking to eliminate any threat to valuable British merchant convoys passing through the [[Malacca Straits]], Rear-Admiral [[Edward Pellew|Sir Edward Pellew]] determined in early 1806 that the Dutch naval forces based at Java, which included several [[ships of the line]] and three [[frigate]]s, had to be defeated to ensure British dominance in the region. Lacking the forces to effect an invasion of the Dutch colony, Pellew instead sought to isolate and [[blockade]] the Dutch squadron based at [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] in preparation for raids specifically targeting the Dutch ships with his main force.
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