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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
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Mecca, and said that the murderers, sixteen in number, were in
confinement, but could not be executed until the sanction of
the Sultan was received from Constantinople. Captain Fallen,
however, demanded their immediate decapitation, but on the
intercession of Namick Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who had arrived from Mecca,
and proceeded on board the 6 Cyclops,' extended the time for
renewing the bombardment to the 5th of August, in order to spare
the pilgrims, who were crowding into Jiddah, on their return
from Mecca, for the purpose of embarkation for their respective
destinations. Eventually the town was saved from destruction
by the arrival, on the 2nd of August, of five hundred Egyptian
troops, under Ismail Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who brought the Imperial firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
conferring upon him the necessary powers. Accordingly, the
murderers were executed, the English and French flags were
saluted, and an indemnity was paid to the relatives of the
victims. Shortly after satisfaction had been obtained, the
'Assaye,' Commander Adams, arrived at Jiddah, for the purpose
of protecting British interests, and remained there until re
lieved by H.M.'s ships 'Chesapeake' and 'Pelorns,' when she
proceeded to Aden, towing the merchant ship 'Eranee,' pre
sumably the cause of the massacre.
We will now continue the sketch of the history of the Bom
bay Marine Battalion until it became, after the abolition
of the Indian Navy, the 21st Regiment Bombay Native Infantry,
resuming it from the point where we had left ofF, # after
the destruction of the detachment left at Kishm in Captain
Thompson's ill-fated Expedition in 1820, and the signal re
venge taken on the Beni-Boo-Ali tribe of Arabs in the fol
lowing year, in which Expedition the remnant of the detach
ment also participated.
The first notice of any importance relating to the Battalion,
is the following extract from Government Orders:—
<c Bombay Castle, 24th of March, 1823.
"The Honourable the Governor is pleased to augment the
strength of the 1st, or Marine, Battalion, 11th Regiment Native
Infantry, to one thousand privates, and to direct that the 2nd
Battalion 12th Regiment, cease to be a Marine Battalion. His
Excellency the Commander-in-chief is requested to take the
necessary steps for transferring two hundred Sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. of the
* In pursuance of this instruction appears the following extract from the
Greneral Orders, by the Commander-in-chief, dated Bombay, Friday, 28th of
March, 1823;— J J
" The officer commanding in the Southern Concan will be pleased to cause the
Orders of Grovernment of the 24th instant, to be explained to the 2nd Battalion
12Lh Regiment Native Infantry on parade, when two hundred Sepoys Term used in English to refer to an Indian infantryman. Carries some derogatory connotations as sometimes used as a means of othering and emphasising race, colour, origins, or rank. , Mussul
mans and Purwarees, are to have leave to volunteer into the 1st Battalion