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en-wikipedia-org-3380		Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6011	710	73	When news of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush reached London, Bulwer-Lytton, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, requested that the War Office recommend a field officer, "a man of good judgement possessing a knowledge of mankind", to lead a Corps of 150 (later increased to 172) Royal Engineers, who had been selected for their "superior discipline and intelligence".[25] The War Office chose Richard Clement Moody, and Lord Lytton, who described Moody as his "distinguished friend",[26] accepted the nomination in view of Moody's military record, his success as Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the distinguished record of his father, Colonel Thomas Moody, Knight at the Colonial Office.[27] Moody was charged to establish British order and transform the newly established Colony of British Columbia (1858–66) into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west"[28] and "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific."[25] Lytton desired to send to the colony "representatives of the best of British culture, not just a police force": he sought men who possessed "courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world,"[29] and decided to send Moody, whom the Government considered to be the archetypal "English gentleman and British Officer."[30] at the head of the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, to whom he wrote an impassioned letter.[26]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3380.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3380.txt