"تاريخ البحرية الهندية. (١٦١٣- ١٨٦٣)." [‎٤‎٢‎٩] (٦٢٢/٤٤٨)

CHAPTER X.
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The Indian Mutiny, 1857—1859.
Services of the Indian Navy during tlie Sepoy Mutiny—The Indian Navy
Squadron at Calcutta-—The Seizure of the King of Oude at Garden Reach-
Formation of the Indian Naval Brigade and Appointment of Captain C. D.
Campbell as Senior Officer—Services of No. 4 Detachment, under Lieutenant
T. E. Lewis, at Dacca and in Upper Assam; of Lieutenant W. H. W. Davies,
against the Hill Tribe of Abors; of Detachments Nos. 2, 7 and 10, under
Lieutenant Gr. O'Brien Carew at Barrackpore, Jugdespore, and Alipore; of No.
1 Detachment, under Lieutenants Duval, Sweny, Warden and Hellard; of
No. 5 Detachment, under Lieutenant D. L. Duval, atGya ; of No. 11 Detach
ment, under Lieutenants T. H. B. Barron and H. Cotegrave, at Moozufferpore
and Mooteeharee; of No. 9 Detachment, against the Coles, in Chota Nagpore,
under Lieutenant A. T. Windus ; of No. 14 Detachment, at Chyabassa, under
Acting-Lieutenant H. W. H. Burnes and Lieutenant W. H. W. Davies; of
No. 3 Detachment, at Buxar, under Commander Batt—How Acting-Master
G-. B. Chicken gained the Yictoria Cross—Services of Detachments Nos. 8, 12
and 13, at Jessore, Julpigoree, and Chuprah, under Lieutenants H. Jackson,
R. G-. Hurlock, and C. B. Templer—Occupation of the Andaman Islands,
and Services of No. 6 Detachment, under Lieutenant C. B. Templer, Acting-
Lieutenant F. Warden, and Lieutenant S. B. Hellard—Government re
cognition of the Services of the Indian Navy during the Sepoy Mutiny.
WE now come to a most important episode in the History of
the Indian Navy, that in which they assisted in the sup
pression of the terrible Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, which con
stitutes. perhaps, the most momentous crisis in the annals of
British rule in the East. It was almost the last, and, certainly,
it was not the least important, of the long roll of services
rendered by the Indian Navy during the two and a-half centuries
of its existence.
On the cessation of hostilities with Persia, most of the ships
of the Indian Navy, and transports, returned to Bombay with
the greater portion of the Expeditionary force. On the 7th of
May, the 4 Assaye,' Commander Adams, with transports, arrived
fromMohamra with the 64th and 78th Regiments, which, on
receipt of the alarming news from Bengal, were despatched to
Calcutta without landing, on the 23rd of Ma}^, the day the
4 Semiramis ? arrived from the Gulf; on the 28th, this ship,
under Lieutenant Stradling, who succeeded to the command on
that day, sailed for Ceylon, whence she conveyed a wing of the
37th Regiment^ and a detachment of Royal Artillery—the
* In October, the remaining wing of the 37th Regiment was conveyed to
Calcutta by the 'Auckland,' which, on the 27th of that month, when about
two hundred and fifty miles distant from Masulipatam, encountered a cyclone,
which she weathered in safety, owing to a strict attention to the theory of the
law of these circular storms, on the part of Commander Drought.
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