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| Second Battle of Chuenpi | |||||||||
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| Part of the First Opium War | |||||||||
 British forces advancing in Chuenpi | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Qing China | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Gordon Bremer | Guan Tianpei | ||||||||
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3 ships of the line 3 frigates 2 paddle frigates 1 corvette 2 sloops 1 bomb ketch 1,500 men 3 guns2 |
15 junks 2,000 men 2 forts | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 38 wounded |
277 killed 467 wounded 100 captured 11 junks destroyed 191 guns captured 2 forts captured | ||||||||
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1 Cession formally ratified in the Treaty of Nanking (1842). 2 Involved in the Chuenpi landing force only. | |||||||||
The Second Battle of Chuenpi[a] (Chinese: 第二次穿鼻之戰) was fought between British and Chinese forces in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong province, China, on 7 January 1841 during the First Opium War. The British launched an amphibious attack at the Humen strait (Bogue), capturing the forts on the islands of Chuenpi and Taikoktow. Subsequent negotiations between British Plenipotentiary Charles Elliot and Chinese Imperial Commissioner Qishan resulted in the Convention of Chuenpi on 20 January. As one of the terms of the agreement, Elliot announced the cession of Hong Kong Island to the British Empire, after which the British took formal possession of the island on 26 January.
- ^ Hoe & Roebuck 1999, p. xviii
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