生麦事件
In August 1863 he hoisted his flag in the wooden screw-frigate "Euryalus" and led a British squadron of seven warships to Kagoshima to coerce the "daimyō" of Satsuma into paying the £25,000 demanded by the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the Namamugi Incident. During the Bombardment of Kagoshima the captain of "Euryalus", John James Steven Josling, was killed, as was his second-in-command, Commander Wilmot, both decapitated by the same cannonball.