![]() The visit of the Channel Squadron to Cherbourg in 1865: as decribed in The Times newspaper.The Channel Squadron in 1858-1862: as described in The Times newspaper.The "Experimental Squadrons": in the mid 1840s the Tory Admiralty sent a number of "Experimental Squadrons" to sea to investigate (actually, to attempt to disprove) the suitability of the ships designed by Sir William Symonds, the Surveyor of the Navy, appointed by the previous Whig administration.The contribution of the Naval brigades to the conquest of Upper Burma in 1885 - 1886 as described by William Laird Clowes.British involvement, 1860 - 1862, with the Taiping rebellion as described by William Laird Clowes (and The Times on Sherard Osborn's " Anglo-Chinese Squadron").The contribution of the Naval brigades from Shannon and Pearl during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - 1858 ( map) as described by William Laird Clowes.The Anglo-Japanese hostilities of 1863 - 1864 as described by William Laird Clowes (and the same events described by The Times newspaper).The New Zealand Wars of 1860 - 1864 as described by William Laird Clowes. ![]() The Second Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1856 - 1860 as described by William Laird Clowes.The 1856 Royal review as decribed by the Illustrated London News.The 1856 Royal review of the "Great Armament" assembled for, but not sent to, the Baltic as decribed by The Times newspaper.The Pacific campaign as described by The Times newspaper.The Baltic campaign as described in the biography of Bartholomew James Sulivan.The naval campaigns of the war as described in Sir Henry Keppel's autobiography.The naval campaigns of the war as described by William Laird Clowes.The departure of the 1854 Baltic Fleet in 1854 as described by The Times newspaper.The formal Declaration of War published in a Supplement of the London Gazette.The 1853 Royal review of the fleet prior to the outbreak of the war as described by The Times newspaper.The Russian ("Crimean") War of 1854 - 1856.The Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852 - 1853 as described by William Laird Clowes.The Anglo-French Uruguayan campaign of 1845 as described by Henry Norton Sulivan.The Anglo-French Uruguayan campaign of 1845 as described by William Laird Clowes.The Syrian campaign of 1840 as described by William Laird Clowes.The First Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1838 - 1842 as described by William Laird Clowes.Brief descriptions of Royal Navy vessels from the 1858/9 United Service Magazine: Our Screw Steam Navy, Our Paddle-Wheel Steam Navy, Our Sailing Navy.Strength and dispositions of the Victorian Royal Navy from the pages of The Times newspaper.Unarmoured wooden screw warships: career details and newspaper extracts concerning the principal unarmoured wooden screw warships (sloops and larger) of the Royal Navy.Named classes of vessels on the books of the Royal Navy in de period 1840-1880.Vessels, 1840-1880: brief details of all the significant vessels (about 1660 in number) of the Royal Navy in that period.Naval Administration - Admiral Sir Vesey Hamilton's 1896 description of the structure and function of the Admiralty.Legislation concerning the discipline of the Royal Navy (Naval Discipline Act, Articles of War, Naval Mutiny Act).Queens regulations and Admiralty Instructions - 1861.Selected obituaries from The Times newspaper.Selected entries from William O'Byrnes 1849 Naval Biographical Dictionary.Officers in command: career details of some 1600 Royal Navy officers in command of any RN vessel in the period 1840-1880.The principal Commanders-in-chief, 1830-1899.The Letters Patent appointing the 1841 Commissioners of the Admiralty (and the simpler form used by 1896). ![]()
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