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- On 18 January 1839, the British East India Company landed Royal Marines at Aden. Their aims were to establish a supply port and stop attacks by Arab pirates against British shipping to India.
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The Aden Expedition was a naval operation that the British Royal Navy carried out in January 1839. Following Britain's decision to acquire the Port of Aden as a coaling station for the steamers sailing the new Suez - Bombay route, the Sultan of Lahej, who owned Aden, resisted, which led to a series of skirmishes between the two sides.
In 1839 Britain captured the town of Aden (now part of Yemen) in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Like the later seizure of Cyprus (1878) and of Egypt (1882), the occupation of Aden was a strategic rather than commercial undertaking, guarding the lines of communication with India.
In 1839 Britain captured the town of Aden (now part of Yemen) in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. Here we explore a short history of the Aden emergency.
The reasons for the capture of Aden were primarily maritime, relating to the successful experiments with steam-powered vessels on the route between Bombay and Suez, and the need to establish a convenient coaling station.
Britain first occupied Aden in 1839 and over the following decades extended its authority over the coastal tribes from Sheik Saad at the entrance to the Red Sea eastwards. Turkish influence also extended into Southern Arabia, and in 1872 the Turks occupied the Yemen, bringing them to the ill-defined border of the British sphere of influence.
Aden, the Company and Indian Ocean Interests The British East India Company’s decision to acquire Aden by force in 1839 is generally written about as a strategic decision. One of the few natural deep-water harbors in the western Indian Ocean, Aden was an ideal location for a coaling station,
A state of emergency was then declared in the British Crown colony of Aden and its hinterland, the Aden Protectorate. The emergency escalated in 1967 and hastened the end of British rule in the territory which had begun in 1839.
