Doings in China ... from the recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the peace of Nankin in 1842R. Bentley, 1843 - 320 pàgines |
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Doings in China ... from the recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the peace of ... Alexander Murray Visualització completa - 1843 |
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18th Royal Irish Admiral anchored arms attack barbarians batteries Bengal Volunteers bluff height boats brass guns British canal Canton Captain carried Centre Brigade Chappoo Chin-keang-foo China Chinese Chusan close Colonel commanding defence destroyed dollars Eleppo Emperor enemy English excellent fire flag flank fleet gate gingalls HENRY POTTINGER hill honourable hundred Imperial Commissioner island joss-house Keang killed Land Force Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant Lieutenant-General Lord Saltoun Madras Artillery Madras Native Infantry Majesty's Plenipotentiary Major Major-General mandarin marched matchlocks ment miles moved Nankin naval nearly night Ning-Po o'clock officers pagoda party peace Phlegethon provinces quarters regiment round royal artillery sail sappers Schoedde sent Sesostris Shang Hae ships shore shot side Sir Hugh Gough Sir William Parker soldiers sort steamers suburbs taken Tartar Tartar city Tartar troops Ting Hae Ting-Hae tion took towed town True Copy walls Woosung Woosung river wounded Yang-tse-Keang
Passatges populars
Pàgina 239 - China agrees to release, unconditionally, all subjects of Her Britannic Majesty (whether natives of Europe or India), who may be in confinement at this moment in any part of the Chinese Empire.
Pàgina 297 - Johnstone, with the greatest steadiness and gallantry, reared their ladders against the wall, and in a few minutes the grenadiers of the 55th had mounted, and dividing into two parties, proceeded to clear the ramparts, one party turning to the right, under Brevet Major Maclean, and another to the left, under Lieut.
Pàgina 293 - ... the city, which is about four miles in circumference ; plunderers flocking in by hundreds from the country, have joined the populace, and such is their systematic mode of proceeding, that in one instance which came to my knowledge, they set fire to both ends of a street in the western suburb...
Pàgina 308 - ... measures been called for, the north angle was the only point against which the ships could act, and I determined to approach or threaten the east face in its whole extent, and the south-east angle. The Cornwallis, Blonde, and heavy steamers, were accordingly placed in position, the first within 1000 paces of the Ifung gate, with her broadside bearing upon a sort of demi-bastion, which it was proposed to breach ; the Blonde...
Pàgina 302 - The city had become uninhabitable, from the number of dead bodies in the bouses that were occupied by the Tartar troops near the several gates, and in the whole of the Tartar town. From the decomposed and scattered state of these bodies, it would have been impracticable to bury them without much risk to the health of the troops employed, and without breaking into numerous houses, which might have led to consequences scarcely less objectionable. I regret to say, that notwithstanding erery precaution,...
Pàgina 239 - ... 4. The island of Hong Kong to be ceded in perpetuity to her Britannic Majesty, her heirs and successors. 5. All subjects of her Britannic Majesty (whether natives of Europe or India), who may be confined in any part of the Chinese Empire, to be unconditionally released. 6. An act of full and entire amnesty to be published by the Emperor under his Imperial sign manual and seal to all Chinese subjects, on account of their having held service or intercourse with, or resided under, the British Government...
Pàgina 282 - I determined to land one brigade. My first intention, when I reconnoitred this place on the 16th, was to land the other brigade near a range of low hills about two or three miles further eastward, so as to act against the eastern face of the city ; but the fleet having come to anchor on the 20th so far up the river, I was induced to alter my plan of attack, and the more readily, as I perceived from the top of the pagoda on Kin-shan three encampments at some distance, on the slope of the hills south-west...
Pàgina 261 - The l.'ith was employed in examining and sounding the entrance into the Woosung river, and six o'clock on the morning of the 16th, the ships of war were towed in shore by the steamers, under a heavy and, for the Chinese, well-directed fire, not returning a shot until each ship had taken her appointed station, when they opened a fire that must have appalled the enemy (though he was not entirely silenced for a considerable time). The details of this very animating scene will no doubt be fully reported...
Pàgina 311 - It is now my pleasing duty to bring to your Lordship's notice those gallant officers and troops who throughout the active operations in China, in a warfare new to the British arms, exposed in various instances to temptations of no ordinary kind, assailed by sickness, which in some cases left but few effective...