Battle of Keelung (1841-1842)

Battle of Keelung
Part of First Opium War
Date1841-1842
LocationKeelung, Taiwan
Result Shipwrecked survivors executed (out of 274 captured, only 9 survived)[1]
Belligerents

United Kingdom United Kingdom

 Qing dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Yao Ying

The Battle of Keelung was a battle fought between Qing and British forces during the First Opium War at Keelung on the island of Taiwan.

Battle

As some British advocated the annexation of Taiwan,[2][3] in 1841 during the First Opium War, the British made three unsuccessful attempts to capture the harbour of Keelung on the northeast coast of the island.[4][5][6][7] The ventures to seize Da'an and Keelung by the British failed.[8] The successful defense was directed by the taotai Yao Ying who led the Chinese naval forces on Taiwan.[9] On the island some British were taken as prisoners by Yao Ying and interrogated for information on the west.[10]

Shipwrecks during and after the battle

Indian and European crew members of the Nerbudda, a British ship damaged by a storm and left unmoored, were captured on Taiwan after being abandoned by their British officers and were executed by local Qing officials.[1][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Portuguese, Indian, American, and European crew members of the Ann, another British ship, were shipwrecked in the vicinity of Tamsui in March 1842, captured, and then executed by the Chinese.[23][24] At Tainan, 197 of the Nerbudda and Ann's crew were killed and due to causes related to imprisonment 87 others died.[25]

References

  1. 1 2 Shih-Shan Henry Tsai (18 December 2014). Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. Routledge. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-1-317-46517-1.
  2. ↑ Leonard H. D. Gordon (2009). Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers. Lexington Books. pp. 32–. ISBN 978-0-7391-1869-6.
  3. ↑ Shiyuan Hao (15 December 2015). How the Communist Party of China Manages the Issue of Nationality: An Evolving Topic. Springer. pp. 165–. ISBN 978-3-662-48462-3.
  4. ↑ Elliott, Jane E. (2002). Some Did it for Civilisation, Some Did it for Their Country: A Revised View of the Boxer War. Chinese University Press. ISBN 9789629960667. p. 197
  5. ↑ http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=17470&ctNode=103&htx_TRCategory=&mp=4
  6. ↑ http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/Eng2/historic/link01.htm
  7. ↑ https://www.sinica.edu.tw/tit/scenery/0196_keelung.html
  8. ↑ Cultural Identity and the Making of Modern Taiwanese Painting During the Japanese Colonial Period (1895--1945). ProQuest. 2008. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-549-98647-8.
  9. ↑ http://library.globalchalet.net/Authors/Poetry%20Books%20Collection/Frontier%20Taiwan%20-%20An%20Anthology%20of%20Modern%20Chinese%20Poetry.pdf p. 9
  10. ↑ John King Fairbank (1978). The Cambridge History of China: Late Chʻing, 1800-1911, pt. 2. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–. ISBN 978-0-521-22029-3.
  11. ↑ Shih-Shan Henry Tsai (18 December 2014). Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. Taylor & Francis. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-317-46516-4.
  12. ↑ James M. Polachek (1992). The Inner Opium War. Harvard Univ Asia Center. pp. 190–. ISBN 978-0-674-45446-0.
  13. ↑ Leonard H. D. Gordon (2009). Confrontation Over Taiwan: Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers. Lexington Books. pp. 12–. ISBN 978-0-7391-1869-6.
  14. ↑ James Wheeler Davidson (1903). The Island of Formosa: Historical View from 1430 to 1900. sn. pp. 1–.
  15. ↑ http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/the_island_of_formosa_past_and_present_1000693766/787
  16. ↑ George Williams Carrington (1977). Foreigners in Formosa, 1841-1874. Chinese Materials Center. pp. 25, 31, 43.
  17. ↑ George Williams Carrington (1977). Foreigners in Formosa, 1841-1874. Chinese Materials Center. pp. 25, 31, 43.
  18. ↑ http://www.academia.edu/18492407/Taiwan_s_Historical_Relations_with_Europe_Perspectives_on_the_Past_and_the_Present
  19. ↑ http://www.zhishi5.com/shrw/2011/1202/article_3846.html
  20. ↑ http://nrch.culture.tw/twpedia.aspx?id=2655
  21. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/longwhitemounta00jamegoog/longwhitemounta00jamegoog_djvu.txt
  22. ↑ http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca1/13/blackwoodsmagazi176edinuoft/blackwoodsmagazi176edinuoft.pdf
  23. ↑ Jonathan Manthorpe (15 December 2008). Forbidden Nation: A History of Taiwan. St. Martin's Press. pp. 129–. ISBN 978-0-230-61424-6.
  24. ↑ http://hiotuxliwisbp6mi. onion.link/video/torrents.complete/Nonfiction%201700%20Sorted%20Ebooks%20Pack%20PHC/1403969817.Palgrave.Macmillan.Forbidden.Nation.A.History.of.Taiwan.Oct.2005.pdf
  25. ↑ H. Maclear Bate (1952). Report from Formosa. Dutton. p. 174.

Coordinates: 25°09′04″N 121°45′22″E / 25.1511°N 121.7561°E / 25.1511; 121.7561

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