Doings in China ... from the recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the peace of Nankin in 1842R. Bentley, 1843 - 320 Seiten |
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18th Royal Irish 49th regiment 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 guard HENRY POTTINGER hill honourable hundred Imperial Commissioner island joss-house killed Land Force Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant Lieutenant-General Lord Saltoun Madras Artillery Madras Native Infantry Majesty's Plenipotentiary Major mandarin marched matchlocks ment miles moved Nankin naval nearly night Ning-Po o'clock officers pagoda party peace Phlegethon provinces quarters round royal artillery sail sappers sent Sesostris Shang Hae ships shore shot side Sir Hugh Gough Sir William Parker soldiers sort steamers street 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
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Seite 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.
Seite 305 - Teshing) is approached by a paved road, running between wooded hills to within 500 paces of the walls, whence it is carried along a cultivated flat ; the next (the Taiping) is within a few hundred yards of the base of Chungshan, and that to the south (the Chanyang) enters the Tartar city. There is a long line of unbroken wall between the Teshing gate and the river, hardly approachable from swamps and low paddy land, and the space between the Teshing and Taiping gates is occupied by rather an extensive...
Seite 240 - 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 or its officers. " 7. Correspondence to be conducted on terms of perfect equality amongst the officers of both governments. " 8. On the Emperor's assent being received to this treaty, and the payment of the first...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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,...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...