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- The British seized Aden in 1839 because it was a nest of pirates threatening maritime trade with Bombay. They stationed a few soldiers there to prevent any recurrence of the threat.
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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
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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.
This essay examines those early experiments, and in particular the first voyage of the Hugh Lindsay in 1830; the challenges – technical, geographical and political – faced by the pioneers; and the reasons why Aden emerged as the key port for Britain and India on the ‘overland’ route.
The British seized Aden in 1839 because it was a nest of pirates threatening maritime trade with Bombay. They stationed a few soldiers there to prevent any recurrence of the threat. A totally unappealing piece of real estate, it had no intrinsic value.
In 1839 Captain Haines of the East India Company landed a party of Royal Marines on the small seaport at the foot of the Red Sea. Haines's job was to put an end to the Adeni pirates who were harassing British merchant ships on their passage to India.
It was the first imperial acquisition of Queen Victoria's reign and one destined to carry some flavour of the Victorian Age far into the 20th Century. It was soon to prove the strategic worth of its location when the main telegraph wires linking Britain to India came ashore in Aden in 1859.
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,
