Bluejackets clearing out the Congo pirates, 1875. A punitive expedition by the British navy, following an attack on the British schooner Geraldine

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Illustration by William Heysham Overend (1851-1898) from Cassell's Century Edition History of England, pub circa 1901. Bluejackets clearing out the Congo pirates, 1875. A punitive expedition by the British navy, following an attack on the British schooner Geraldine. Attack on villages ordered by Commodore William Hewett, Royal Navy Commander in chief of Cape of Good Hope Station, and led by Captain Bradshaw

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