2-981-876 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Expedition against the Malays: the British Force ascending the Perak River, 1876. Episode from the Perak War: '...the joint military and naval forces, under command of Major-General Colborne, C.B., and Captain Alexander Buller, R.N., going up the Perak river, in the Malay peninsula, to punish the murderers of the late Mr. Birch, the British Resident among the Malay tribes of that region...[View] taken just above Passir Telor. It shows the flotilla of forty-five boats, conveying the force on their way up the river. The large square boats are those conveying the guns, provisions, and coals for a small light-draught steam-launch, which proved of great service'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.