Captain Sir Christopher Cole was an officer of the British Royal Navy who served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Although he saw distinguished
Captain Sir Christopher Cole, Margaret Sarah Carpenter
View of Banda Neira, depicting three of the four ships used to capture the island from the Dutch in 1810, from a sketch by Cole in command of HMS Caroline
Java campaign of 1806–1807
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The Java campaign of 1806–1807 was a military campaign of the Napoleonic Wars in which the Royal Navy destroyed a squadron of the navy of the Kingdom of Holland based on Java. In 1806, Rear-admiral Si
Christopher Cole (Royal Navy officer)
…his flagship HMS Culloden. Pellew was sent out to the Indian Ocean in 1804, and Cole remained with him there for three years, participating in the Java campaign of 1806–1807. The stress of service in the Far East caused the relationship between the two men to break down, and in March 1807 Cole took command of the new frigate…
Capture of the Maria Riggersbergen, Octr. 18th 1806 Thomas Whitcombe, 1817
The action of 18 October 1806, the second engagement of the campaign
The British raid on Batavia on 27 November 1806