2-979-562 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Persian Expedition - the "Abdulla" Transport, the "Feroze", "Punjaub", and "Assaye" shelling the Old Portuguese Battery, Indus Flat, 1857. Sketch '...by an officer, in the Bushire Roads, showing part of what occurred during the attack and capture of Bushire [Bushehr]...The Assaye, Punjaub, and Feroze shelling an old Portuguese land battery, at which the Persians made a stand; but much could not be seen from the Semiramis. On the right is an Indus flat - a small iron steamer, drawing about three feet water'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.