Battle of Escape Creek
| Battle of Escape Creek | |||||||
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| Part of the Second Opium War | |||||||
 Commodore Elliot leading gunboats to attack the Mandarin junks | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom | Qing China | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Charles Elliot | unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 3 gunboats | 41 war-junks | ||||||
The Battle of Escape Creek was a naval engagement fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the Qing Chinese naval force on May 25, 1857, during the Second Opium War. Commodore Charles Elliot's squadron chased the war-junks upriver and then, once the British ships were grounded as the river narrowed, they chased them in the ships' boats until all the war-junks had been overhauled.[1]
Gallery
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Map of Canton area showing Escape Creek at top left
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Burning of twenty-seven junks taken in Escape Creek
See also
References
- ↑ "Second Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1856 – 1860". William Loney. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
Coordinates: 23°02′17″N 113°31′19″E / 23.038°N 113.522°E
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