Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1811, i muri i te whakaekenga o te Rangatiratanga o Holland e Parani i te pakanga a Napoleon, kaore he mea ke atu a Raffles ki te wehe i te whenua. I eke ia ki runga
he rerenga hōia ki te hunga o Rānana me Wīwī i Hāmoa, i te Netherlands East Indies. Ko te pakanga i tere whakahaerehia e Admiral Robert Stopford, General Frederick Augustus Wetherall, me Colonel Robert Rollo Gillespie, nana i arahi he ope tino pai ki te ope whawhai o te nuinga o nga hoia French me te iti o te kaiarahi tika.