East Indies and China Station

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Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China
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The Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China was a

formation of the Royal Navy from 1831 to 1865.[1] Its naval area of responsibility was the Indian Ocean and the coasts of China and its navigable rivers.[2]

The Commander-in-Chief was appointed in 1831; the appointment ceased to exist when it was separated into the

At the age of 67, Charles Austen was advanced to rear-admiral on 9 November 1846,[3] and was appointed commander-in-chief for the East Indies and China on 14 January 1850, hoisting his flag the following day.[3] He commanded the British expedition during the Second Anglo-Burmese War but died of cholera at Prome on 7 October 1852, at the age of 73.[3][4] On 30 April 1852 Austen had been thanked for his services in Burma by the Governor-General of India, the Marquess of Dalhousie, who subsequently also formally recorded his regret for Austen's death.[4]

In December 1852

Admiralty, never to serve at sea again.[5]

Qing reinforcements.[8]

In August 1855, during the Crimean War, Winchester and Barracouta entered and first charted the waters of Peter the Great Gulf, while searching for the Russian squadron commanded by Vasily Zavoyko.[9]

"In 1856 [Stirling] was recalled because he had failed in the primary naval duty of finding and destroying the Russian squadron - partly, perhaps, because of his preoccupation with the self-imposed task of negotiating with Japan."[10]

Under Rear Admiral Michael Seymour's command after 1856, his ships were involved in operations arising from the attack on the British coaster Arrow.[11] During the Second Opium War or "Arrow War," in China, Seymour commanded the Battle of the Bogue in November 1856, helped destroy the Chinese fleet in the Battle of Fatshan Creek in June 1857,[11] captured Canton in December,[11] and in 1858 he captured the forts on the Baihe (Hai River),[11] compelling the Chinese government to consent to the Treaty of Tientsin.[11]

Commanders-in-Chief

Commanders-in-Chief included:[1]
NoN = died in post

References

  1. ^ a b c "William Loney RN". Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  2. ^ "Royal Navy foreign stations". Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2010-10-17.
  3. ^ a b c The Gentleman's Magazine. p. 438.
  4. ^ a b "RN Officer's Service Records—Image details—Austen, Charles John, Rear Admiral". DocumentsOnline. The National Archives. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Laughton (1895). "Pellew, Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds (1789-1861)". Dictionary of National Biography. p. 271.
  6. Annual Register
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  7. ^ W. G. Beasley, The Language Problem in the Anglo-Japanese Negotiations of 1854
  8. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.554.2585
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  9. . Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  10. . For the Russian squadrons, see The First Pacific War: Britain and Russia, 1854-1856, John D. Grainger.
  11. ^ .