James Bremer

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James Bremer

Sir James John Gordon Bremer (born September 26, 1786 - February 14, 1850 in Compton , England ) was a Rear Admiral in the British Royal Navy . He was involved in the First Anglo-Burmese War and the First Opium War .

Career

New South Wales

In July 1824 Bremer reached Sydney as the captain of the HMS Tamar . In August he sailed to Melville Island to set up the settlement of Fort Dundas . The Bremer River in Queensland was named after the Vice Admiral by the explorer John Oxley in the same year . Which Bremer Bay in Western Australia was named by John Septimus Roe , the first Surveyor General (State surveyor) of Western Australia. Roe served on board the Tamar under Bremer from 1824 to 1827.

In 1838 the British founded the settlement of Port Essington in the Northern Territory . The settlers faced many difficulties. After they had previously supplied themselves with food from the Dutch colony on Kisar , they brought water buffalo, Timor ponies and some English newspapers from the Portuguese colonial capital Dili on Timor to Port Essington in early 1839 . On February 13, Bremer visited Dili again as the British commander on board the HMS Britomart in order to secure further help from the Portuguese governor. Even if Port Essington was given up again by the British in 1849, the renewal of the alliance with the British meant additional support for Portugal against the expansion pressure from the Dutch in this region.

Bremer Island in northern Australia also bears his name.

China

Conference between Comodore Bremer and Admiral Chang, the Chinese governor of Chusan and chief mandarin, on board the HMS Wellesley on June 4, 1840

After the death of Frederick Lewis Maitland in November 1839, during the First Opium War, Commodore Bremer assumed command of the East Indies and China Station , a squadron of the Royal Navy, until Admiral George Elliot arrived in July 1840. When he returned to Great Britain for health reasons in November 1840, Bremer took command of the squadron again until Admiral William Parker succeeded him in August 1841 . On January 26, 1841, Bremer took possession of Hong Kong Island at Possession Point for the British Crown. On February 1, he published a proclamation to the residents with General Representative Charles Elliot, declaring the island to be British territory.

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Gordon Bremer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1850). Volume 17, p. 200.
  2. ^ Clayton Fredericksen: The British Arrive And Leave: Fort Dundas, Melville Island, 1824-1829 . Clayton Fredericksen. Archived from the original on October 13, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  3. ^ Ipswich - Culture and History . theage.com.au. Archived from the original on April 27, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2009.
  4. ^ History of Country Town Names. Landgate
  5. ^ History of Timor . ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 805 kB) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Technical University of Lisbon , p. 72 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pascal.iseg.utl.pt
  6. ↑ JKL:  Bremer, James John Gordon . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 6:  Bottomley - Browell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886, p. 257 (English).
  7. ^ The London Gazette : p. 1424, June 3, 1841. 1998 edition4.
  8. ^ The Chinese Repository (1841). Volume 10. p. 64.
personal data
SURNAME Bremer, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bremer, James John Gordon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1786
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1850
Place of death Compton , England