Battle of Shanghai (1861)

Battle of Shanghai (1861)
Part of Taiping Rebellion (Eastern Expedition)
DateJuly 1861 – November 1862
Location
Shanghai western, southern and Pudong
Result Qing dynasty victory
Territorial
changes
Southeast China
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Qing dynasty
France French Empire
 United Kingdom
 United States
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Qing dynasty Li Hongzhang
Qing dynasty Cheng Xueqi
Qing dynasty Huang Yisheng (黃翼昇)
Qing dynasty Pan Dingxin (潘鼎新)
Qing dynasty Guo Songlin (郭松林)
Qing dynasty Liu Mingchuan
France Auguste Léopold Protet  
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland James Hope
United States Frederick Townsend Ward
United States Edward Forrester
Li Xiucheng
Tan Shaoguang
Li Rongfa
Ji Qingyuan (吉慶元)
Chen Kunshu
Chen Bingwen (陳炳文)
Gao Yongkuan (郜永寬)
Strength
40,000 Green Standard Army
20,000 Huai Army
3,000 Ever Victorious Army
France 4,000
United Kingdom 3,000
120,000
Casualties and losses
? deaths ? deaths

The Battle of Shanghai (太平軍二攻上海) was a major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion that occurred from June 1861 to July 1862. British and French troops used modern artillery on a large scale for the first time in China.[citation needed] Cannon fire inflicted heavy casualties on the Taiping forces, whose commander Li Xiucheng was wounded in the left leg by a shot fired from a cannon.