 The operation against the Al Qasimi was a joint campaign by the Royal Navy and the fleet of the Honourable East India Company ( HEIC ) , with soldiers drawn from the garrison of Bombay . The expeditionary force , led by Captain John Wainwright in the Navy frigate HMS Chiffone , was despatched to the region , following an escalation in attacks on British shipping in the Persian Gulf after the French established diplomatic missions in Muscat and Tehran in 1807 . These attacks not only threatened British trade links in the region , but also placed British relations with Oman and Persia in jeopardy at a time when French aspirations against British India were a cause for concern to the British government . 
