Battle of Chinhai

Close of the engagement at Chinhai

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

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]

First Opium War

Kowloon 1st Chuenpee 1st Chusan Barrier 2nd Chuenpee Bogue First Bar Whampoa Broadway 1st Canton 2nd Canton Amoy 2nd Chusan Chinhai Ningpo Tsekee Chapoo Woosung Chinkiang

The Battle of Chinhai was fought between British and Chinese forces in Chinhai, China, on 10 October 1841 during the First Opium War.

Gallery

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