A punitive expedition was organized under the command of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, the success of which was a remarkable example of good organization hastily improvised.
The news of the massacre of Phillips's party reached Rear-Admiral Rawson, the commander-in-chief on the Cape station, on the 4th of January 1897.
Nassau Romance Take a horse-drawn surrey ride through Nassau from Rawson Square.
Rawson's chemical plant stop producing vitriol in around 1834 and the plant was sold to a Mr Wilson but closed in 1875.
Rawson, the Navigator, had to be operated on for a streptococcus throat infection.