The capture of Ningbo forces the British…
November 1841 CE
Admiral Parker and Superintendent Pottinger want a percentage of all captured Chinese property to be turned over to the British as legal prizes of war, while General Gough argues that this will only turn the Chinese population against the British, and that if property has to be seized, it should be public property rather than private.
British policy eventually settles that ten percent of all property captured by the British expeditionary forces will be seized as war loot in retaliation for injustices done to British merchants.
Gough will later stated that this edict will compel his men to "punish one set of robbers for the benefit of another.
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