Sanyuanli incident

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Sanyuanli incident (三元里抗英事件)
Part of the Battle of Canton
Military situation map of the Sanyuanli Incident
Date 29–30 May 1841 Location Sanyuanli, Baiyun District, Guangdong Province, China 23°09′33″N 113°15′39″E / 23.1592°N 113.2608°E / 23.1592; 113.2608 Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
United Kingdom British East India Company	Qing China
Commanders and leaders
Hugh Gough Humphrey Senhouse	Unknown
Strength
6,000	20,000–30,000 militia and local villagers

The Sanyuanli incident (Chinese: 三元里抗英事件) was a military conflict between regular troops of the British Army and an irregular force made up of Chinese militia and local citizens that took place around Sanyuanli village on the outskirts of Canton (now Guangzhou) on the 29 May 1841 after the Second Battle of Canton at the time of the First Opium War (1839–1842). Regarded by the British as a minor skirmish, to the Chinese it is regarded as a live example of a spontaneous uprising by the indigenous Chinese people in response to the actions of an actively aggressive invading foreign power since 1644.^[1]