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Rangoon town, fortifications, and Dagon pagoda
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The Illustrated London News
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Rangoon town, fortifications, and Dagon pagoda
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English: Rangoon town, fortifications, and Dagon pagoda. Storming of Rangoon, 14 April 1852.

Ships involvedː INS Atalanta, H.M.S. Fox, INS Feroze, INS Moozuffer, H.M.S. Rattler, Rockliffe, HMS Serpent, INS Sesostris.

Noteː Moozuffer (paddle steamer), H.M.S. Fox, Sesostris (INS Sesostris 1839 steamer), INS Feroze (steamer), Rockliffe, H.M.S. Rattler, Atalanta.

The Indian Navy (IN) contributed the wooden paddle-steamers frigate Moozuffer (6), Sesostris (4), Ferooz (8), Atalanta (6)

Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 26 June 1852.

Volume: 20, Issue: 566, page 8-9

Read the ILN

P. Davis - W.L. Clowes on the 2nd Anglo-Burmese War

[http://www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainbombay.htm Indian Navy)

Fox frigate at Rangoon, on the Rangoon river.
Depicted place Yangon
Date 26 June 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-06-26T00:00:00Z/11
Medium Wood engraving
Source/Photographer The Illustrated London News

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