I have a relative, Daniel Butler who was sent out to Demerara in South America by the Missionary Society. He drowned there after the boat overturned as they returned from visiting prisoners on an island. It was so sad, his first child had been born just two weeks earlier.
He was from Berkshire and connected with St Johns in Reading. (He died in 1847).
I would think that if British Missionaries were there, then the military was there too.
I found an article about Daniel Butler's death in the newspapers on FMP (reading mercury).
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