2-798-955 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Plan of attack on the Borneo pirates, 1845. Map of battle between British warships under Sir Thomas Cochrane, and the forces of Sultan Syarif Osman Alkadrie. 'A Enemy's Stockade; 1 A Battery of Eight Guns; 2 Eight Gingalls Mounted; 3 Sheriffe Hoosmaun's House, only the rafters remaining; 4 Malay Burying-Ground; 5 Entrance to the Stockade; B Three Gun Battery; C Floating Battery; DD Malay Village; 6 A Wooden Bridge; E Cultivated Ground; FF Jungle that had been cut down to about 2 feet high; G High, impenetrable Jungle; I A Double Boom, laid across the river, formed of two trunks of trees; one 5, and the other 3 feet in diameter; L A small Creek, which was supposed, before the action, to be a deep branch of the river. BRITISH FORCE - H Rocket Battery; K Boats of the Squadron - Twenty-five in Number - Eight Gun-Boats; Fifteen with Marines and Small-Arm-Men'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.