Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1857, Van Straubenzee ya zama Kwamandan Sojojin Birtaniya a Hong Kong kuma ya jagoranci kai hari kan Canton a lokacin yakin Opium na biyu
Ka yi haƙuri. A shekara ta 1862, an sanya shi babban jami'in da ke jagorantar wani Sashin Rundunar Bombay a Ahmedabad kuma daga baya ya dauki overall umurnin Bombay Army.