finally broken up by Major Estcourt, to the orders of the President of the Board of control, at Bagdad, 25 January 1837, and Chesney returned to England in 1837. According to the Captain, the expedition proved the practicability of the Euphrates route to India. This expedition is referenced in Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poetical illustration to an engraving of a painting by William Henry Bartlett, published in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 Life after the Expedition Upon his return to England, Chesney was given the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal, having meanwhile been to India to consult the authorities there. He was later assigned the task of writing the official account of the expedition with a grant of £1,500 by the Treasury and smaller sums by the East India Company. Chesney, ranked to Major, found it very difficult to pick up his career as he had returned to England under "a cloud of official displeasure". He devoted much time to pushing for the establishment of a line of communication with India through Turkish Arabia as he believed that the information obtained through his expedition, that is, rapidity of transit and commercial advantages "require no exemplification". However, the preparation of his two volumes on the expedition (published in 1850) was interrupted by his being ordered out in 1843 to command the artillery at Hong Kong. In 1847, his period of service was completed, and he went home to Ireland, to a life of retirement; but both in 1856 and again in 1862 he went out to the East to take a part in further surveys and negotiations for the Euphrates valley railway scheme, which, however, the government would not take up, in spite of a favourable report from the House of Commons committee in 1871. In 1868 he published a further volume of narrative on his Euphrates expedition. He died on 30 January 1872. Family Chesney′s widow Louisa survived him by 30 years, dying in her 86th year at Beaumont Cote on 11 December 1902, in the residence of her son-in-law. Publications Reports on the Navigation of the Euphrates. Submitted to Government by Captain Chesney, of the Royal Artillery. Taylor, printer, 7, Little James Street, Gray's Inn. [1833] The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Carried on by order of the British Government in the years 1835, 1836, 1837 ; preceded by Geographical and Historical Notices of