In August 1863 he hoisted his flag in the wooden screw-frigate Euryalus and led a British squadron of seven warships to Kagoshima to coerce the Daimyo of Satsuma into paying the £100,000 demanded by the British Government as reparation to the British victims of the Namamugi Incident.
Nisus of Nisus and Euryalus, son of Hyrtacus, friend of Euryalus, in Virgil's Aeneid