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Burmese Stockades. View towards Rangoon.
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The Illustrated London News
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Burmese Stockades. View towards Rangoon.
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English: Burmese Stockades. View towards Rangoon, 10 January 1852, with the interpreters boat in tow.


War steamer Hermes, Burmese King's ship Yathunah-gee-mhon (King Pagan's royal ship), H.M.S. Fox.

Yathunah-gee-mhon (Yatola)

Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 27 March 1852.

Volume: 20, Issue: 551, page 3-4

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P. Davis - W.L. Clowes on the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War

Fox frigate at Rangoon, at the mouth of the Rangoon river. The stockades erected 12 miles below the town of Rangoon. The Hermes ordered take possession and tow out the King's ship, while the towing was underway the Burmese commenced the war by firing upon the Fox. This view is the moment the steamer approached the stockades before the firing commenced. The frigate destroyed the stockades in about 2 hours along with about 60 boats drawn up on the beach. Martaban is is on the opposite side of the river from this place.
Depicted place Rangoon
Date 27 March 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-03-27T00:00:00Z/11
Medium Wood engraving
Source/Photographer The Illustrated London News

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