Augustus Frederick Lindley
Augustus Frederick Lindley | |
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Born | February 3, 1840 UK |
Years of service | UK Navy 1857–1859 Taiping reform movement 1860–1863 |
Rank | Royal Navy Major, 1859 Colonel of Taiping, June 1863 |
Commands held | Taiping Fleet |
Battles/wars | Battle of Jofoolzo 九洑洲決戰, June 1863 |
Augustus Frederick Lindley (呤唎 "Lin-Le") February 3, 1840 – March 29, 1873,[1] was a mid-19th-century British adventurer and writer.
Biography
- China
In 1859, Lindley was a young
- Battle of Jofoolzo—commanding Taiping's warships
In June 1863, Li Xiucheng commanded 250,000 troops to withdraw to Nanjing; Taiping warships bore troops across the river while tough fighting transpired between the Taiping and the
- General Gordon
When Charles George Gordon returned to the UK, Lindley publicly castigated Gordon in the pages of The Times.
- South Africa
In 1868, Lindley, with Roger Pocklington, the American brothers Will and Tom Ashwell, and Louis de Glon of Switzerland, landed at Durban to undertake a gold-hunting expedition in the Transvaal. While no gold was found, the group travelled extensively among the Boer and the various black communities, and encountered many adventures. Pocklington married a Potchefstroom girl, and settled there. The Ashwells and de Glon took up farming in Natal; Will was later an associate of Cecil Rhodes in the consolidation of the Kimberly diamond mines.[3] Lindley returned to England, where he wrote "After Ophir, or, A Search For the South African Gold Fields".