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The raid on Griessie was a British attack on the port of Griessie in the Dutch East Indies on December 1807 during the Java campaign of 1806–1807. It was the final action in a series of engagements fought by the British squadron based in the Indian Ocean against the Dutch navy's forces in Java. It completed the destruction of the Dutch squadron with the scuttling of three ships of the line, the last Dutch warships in the region. The British squadron—under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew—sought to eliminate the Dutch to safeguard the trade route with China, which ran through the Straits of Malacca and were in the range of Dutch raiders operating from the principal Javan port of Batavia.