In the two periods of the Governor-General (Daendels and Raffles), Yogyakarta suppressed with military force to compel Hamengkubuwono II down tahta.Di December 1810 Daendels with troops 4200 soldiers stormed Yogyakarta.Daendels reduce Hamengkubuwono II and then raised the son of the Crown of Yogyakarta as Hamengkubuwono III and returned to Batavia with the Prince Natakusuma as tawanan.Pada month replacement in July 1812 with 2,000 soldiers stormed the Raffles Yogyakarta.
On 21 December 1806, King Louis Bonaparte named both Van Zuylen van Nijevelt and Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau as Marshals; Daendels received the title a few months later.