Chinese Account of the Opium WarKelly & Walsh, Limited, 1888 - 82 trang |
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Admiral KWAN Amoy attack black barbarians boats Brigadier British burnt Canton River Cantonese captured Cha-p'u Chao-pao Shan Chê Kiang Chên-hai chests China Chinese traitors Chinkiang co-hong merchants Colonel CHU Commissioner LIN Cowloon defence demands despatched disloyal Chinese disloyalists ELLIOT Emperor enemy enemy's English FANG fight fire fire-boats Foochow force foreign fleet foreign ships foreign soldiers Formosa French Fu Kien Governor Hangchow Hongkong Hu Nan hulks ILIANG ILIPU Imperial Commissioner indemnity junks K'IKUNG K'ISHEN K'IYING killed Kulang Sü LIN TSEH-SÜ Líptak LUNGWEN Macao Manchu marines men-of-war military Nanking Ningpo NIU KIEN offered official opium OPIUM WAR ordered peace Peking Phoenix Hill pirates port POTTINGER prefect prisoners proposed Province reported Repository for 1842 retire river sampans sent Shang-yü Shanghai Shen Si steam-launches surrender T'ING-CHÊNG taels taotai Tartar-General Tientsin Ting-hai troops turning-point in Canton Viceroy TÊNG volunteers WEI YUAN whilst Wusung Yangtsze YIKKING YIKSHAN YÜ PU-YÜN YÜK'IEN
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Trang 76 - On this some American ships of war entered port, and, a few months later, some Frenchmen too. Both of them submitted letters, begging to pay tribute, and to be allowed to express their devotion at an interview. They also requested to be allowed to leave their ships in the south, whilst the tribute-envoys and a small suite went overland to Peking ; for they wished to make some confidential suggestions, and to assist MS, — as the Uigurs once assisted the T'ang dynasty against the rebel ANLUHSHAN.
Trang 25 - Li and Captain Ma respectively, had only a few hundred men in them, who could do nothing but regard each other with weeping eyes. Admiral Kwan sent Li to Canton to apply for more troops...
Trang 25 - The oilier three forts, farther up the river, commanded by Admiral Kwan, Rear-Admiral Li and Captain Ma respectively, had only a few hundred men in them, who could do nothing but regard each other with weeping eyes. Admiral Kwan sent Li to Canton...
Trang 62 - T'INGK'WEI,* had represented that the Nepaulese had attacked the English garrisons in India, and that the fleet had to go to the rescue : accordingly K'IYING was ordered to see if he could not seize the opportunity to retake Hongkong.
Trang 14 - The Emperor replied, after reading this report, ' What can they do, if we quietly wait on the defensive and watch their movememts ? ' Soon after, when Lin was asked (June 1, 1840) by some American merchants in Canton to allow their ships to clear with their cargoes as quickly...
Trang 11 - ... the English mistook our red flags for a declaration of war, and opened fire ; — for in Europe a red flag means war, and a white one peace.
Trang 76 - English desired that traders of all nations should report to them first, and then pay duties ; but the French and the Americans indignantly exclaimed : — " We are no dependencies of England, nor have we " been treacherous and bullying. Why then treat "them better than us?
Trang 23 - P'ENG,c who had once been the pet boy of the traitor DENT, and whom ELLIOT regarded as a menial, conceiving thereupon a greater contempt for China's resources in men than ever.
Trang 24 - Hongkong, he argued that this island occupied a prominent and central position in Canton waters, sheltered from bad weather by the two islands of Tsimsha Tsui" and K'wen-tai Lou,* which, if fortified by the English, would be a perpetual menace to Canton.
Trang 54 - Our troops were strictly enjoined not to use fire or rockets, lest they should set fire to the town...