Editing James Brooke (section)

==Cession of Labuan to Great Britain==
[[File:Anglo Bruni Treaty 1844.jpg|thumb|left|James Brooke and [[Edward Belcher|Sir Edward Belcher]] negotiating with the [[Sultan of Brunei]], Oct 1844 which eventually led to the signing of the [[Treaty of Labuan]] between the [[Brunei]] sultanate and the British delegation on 18 December 1846 at the court of Brunei, in which [[Labuan]] was ceded to Great Britain.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marryat|first1=Frank|title=Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costume and Scenery|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=XM5CAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA114&hl=en|year=1848|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans|isbn=978-981-05-8830-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Belcher|first1=Edward|title=Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. 'Samarang', During the Years 1843–46; Employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago Vol. 1|date=2024 |publisher=Reeve, Benham, and Reeve |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=jotKAAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA174}}</ref><ref name="lb history">{{cite book|author1=Stephen R. Evans|author2=Abdul Rahman Zainal|author3=Rod Wong Khet Ngee|title=The History of Labuan Island (Victoria Island)|url=http://library.perdana.org.my/Digital_Content/NLM/Batch3/B03_PDF_DVD001/15%20sep/M959.521EVAHistoryOfLabuanVictoriaIsland.pdf|year=1996|publisher=Calendar Print Pte Ltd|isbn=981-00-7764-5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701160652/http://library.perdana.org.my/Digital_Content/NLM/Batch3/B03_PDF_DVD001/15%20sep/M959.521EVAHistoryOfLabuanVictoriaIsland.pdf|archive-date=1 July 2013}}</ref>]]
In 1844 Brooke began anti-pirate operations with ships of the Royal Navy and the East India Company off north-east Sumatra. On 12 February, he received a gunshot wound to his right arm and a spear cut to his eyebrow in their second engagement, at Murdu.<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52873/52873-h/52873-h.htm#Page_103 Baring-Gould & Bampfylde, p. 103]</ref> Later in 1844 the Sultan offered to cede the island of [[Labuan Territory|Labuan]] to the British but terms were not discussed at that time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Brooke |first=James |url=http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sea:214b#page/42/mode/2up |title=The private letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak : narrating the events of his life, from 1838 to the present time |publisher=W. Clowes and Sons |volume=2 |location=Stamford Street and Charing Cross, London |pages=34–35 |chapter=Chapter II: Nov. 17, 1844, to April 4, 1845 |quote=At the same time I got from the sultan and him, the offer of Labuan for the Government. I intended originally to have reserved this document, and only to have used it in case it became necessary; but as wished to forward it, I could have no objection to his doing so. It can do no harm, and may do good – is most favourable this year to forward my views, and I believe he has written in high strains; with what effect we shall see hereafter. Labuan we examined, and it is an island well fitted for a Government establishment|access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref> In November 1846 Captain Rodney Mundy was ordered to obtain the cession of Labuan. He negotiated the cession on 18 December 1846 and took possession of Labuan on 24 December 1846.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mundy|first1=Rodney|title=Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: from the Journals of James Brooke, Esq. Vol. 1|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=FB1JAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA294-IA2&hl=en|year=1848|publisher=John Murray}}</ref> James Brooke was appointed governor and commander-in-chief of [[Crown Colony of Labuan|Labuan]] in 1848.<ref>{{Cite book |last=St. John |first=Sir Spencer |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/lifesirjamesbro01johngoog/page/n148/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The life of Sir James Brooke: rajah of Sarawak: from his personal papers and correspondence |publisher=William Blackwood and Sons |year=1879 |location=Edinburgh and London |pages=129 |chapter=Mr. Brooke visits England: Visit to the Queen |quote=During his stay in England, Mr Brooke was appointed Governor of the new settlement of Labuan … with orders to be ready to start from Portsmouth on the 1st February 1848 |author-link=Spenser St. John |access-date=23 April 2022}}</ref>