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What war was ongoing when Raffles captured the Indonesian island of Java?
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Stamford Raffles captured the Indonesian island of Java from the Dutch during the Napoleonic Wars. These wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon's French Empire and various European nations, which took place between 1803 and 1815.
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