Battle of Chinhai

Battle of Chinhai
Part of First Opium War
Close of the engagement at Chinhai
Date 10 October 1841 Location Chinhai, China Result British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom British East India Company	Qing Dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Hugh Gough
Strength
2,098 troops[1]	8,000–9,000 troops[2]
Casualties and losses
3 killed,[3] 16 wounded[3]	Several hundred casualties,[4] 157 ordnances captured[5]

The Battle of Chinhai was fought between British and Chinese forces in Chinhai (now the Zhenhai District of Ningbo), China, on 10 October 1841 during the First Opium War. The Chinese force consisted of a garrison of Manchu and Mongol Bannermen.

During the Taiping Rebellion the opium clipper Eamont ran up to the threatened city of Ningpo, passing right through the Battle of Chinhai, which was being waged not only on the banks but in the river itself.

Gallery

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  Map of the battle

Notes

1. MacPherson 1843, pp. 383–384
2. MacPherson 1843, p. 381
3. MacPherson 1843, p. 384
4. Hall & Bernard 1846, p. 260
5. MacPherson 1843, p. 385

References

• Hall, William Hutcheon; Bernard, William Dallas (1846). The Nemesis in China (3rd ed.). Henry Colburn.
• MacPherson, Duncan (1843). Two Years in China (2nd ed.). Saunders and Otley

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lubbock, Basil (1914). The China clippers (2nd ed.). Glasgow: James Brown & Son. p. 34. Retrieved 2013-03-21.

Coordinates: 29°58′N 121°43′E / 29.96°N 121.72°E