The Battle of Chinhai () was fought between British and Chinese forces in Chinhai (
Zhenhai
Zhenhai is a district and former county of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It has a population of 200,000.
History
The town of Zhenhai grew up at the foot of Zhaobao Hill on a tongue of land at the m ...
),
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , Chinese postal romanization, also romanized as Chekiang) is an East China, eastern, coastal Provinces of China, province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable citie ...
province, China, on the 10 October 1841 during the
First Opium War. The Chinese force consisted of a garrison of Manchu and Mongol
Bannermen
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. The British capture of this city allowed them to seize
Ningpo unopposed on 13 October.
Gallery
File:Capture of Chinhai.jpg, Map of the battle
File:Tching Hie 1841.jpg, British rowboat at Chinhai
File:Close of the engagement at Chin-hae.jpg, Close of the engagement
References
Bibliography
*Hall, William Hutcheon; Bernard, William Dallas (1846).
The Nemesis in China' (3rd ed.). London: Henry Colburn.
*MacPherson, Duncan (1843).
Two Years in China' (2nd ed.). London: Saunders and Otley
Further reading
*
The Chinese Repository'. Volume 10. Canton. 1841. pp. 680–682.
1841 in China
Chinhai
Chinhai
October 1841 events
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