2-981-874 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Expedition against the Malays: Camp at Passir Salak, Perak River, 1876. Engraving after a sketch by Major O. H. Nicolls, of '... the camp at Passir Salak with the site of Maharajah Lela's village, and the place, marked by a flagstaff, where Mr. Birch was murdered in his bath'. The assassination of British colonial official James Wheeler Woodford Birch on 2 November 1875 led to the outbreak of the Perak War. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.