Plan of attack on the Borneo pirates, 1845. Map of battle between British warships under Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the forces of Sultan Syarif Osman Alkadrie. 'A Enemy's Stockade; 1 A Battery of Eight Guns; 2 Eight Gingalls Mounted; 3 Sheriffe Hoosmaun's House, only the rafters remaining; 4 Malay Burying-Ground; 5 Entrance to the Stockade; B Three Gun Battery; C Floating Battery; DD Malay Village; 6 A Wooden Bridge; E Cultivated Ground; FF Jungle that had been cut down to about 2 feet high; G High, impenetrable Jungle; I A Double Boom, laid across the river, formed of two trunks of trees; one
Plan of attack on the Borneo pirates, 1845. Map of battle between British warships under Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the forces of Sultan Syarif Osman Alkadrie. 'A Enemy's Stockade; 1 A Battery of Eight Guns; 2 Eight Gingalls Mounted; 3 Sheriffe Hoosmaun's House, only the rafters remaining; 4 Malay Burying-Ground; 5 Entrance to the Stockade; B Three Gun Battery; C Floating Battery; DD Malay Village; 6 A Wooden Bridge; E Cultivated Ground; FF Jungle that had been cut down to about 2 feet high; G High, impenetrable Jungle; I A Double Boom, laid across the river, formed of two trunks of trees; one 5, and the other 3 feet in diameter; L A small Creek, which was supposed, before the action, to be a deep branch of the river. BRITISH FORCE - H Rocket Battery; K Boats of the Squadron - Twenty-five in Number - Eight Gun-Boats; Fifteen with Marines and Small-Arm-Men'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.
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