This hand-coloured aquatint shows transports attacking the stockades at the entrance of the Bassein River on 26th February 1825. Major Sale’s division of 780 men, accompanied by the transports, including ‘Larne’, had arrived off the mouth of the Bassein River two days earlier. They advanced on the 26th and were fired at from two stockades, which were abandoned when the fire was returned. Sale subsequently pushed up the river for about 130 miles with the enemy fleeing before him. ‘Larne’, whose commander was Frederick Marryat, is shown on the left of the picture and on the right are the East India Company transports (Laird Clowes, ‘The Royal Navy: A History’, 1901, Vol. VI, p. 247).