A crowd of around twenty thousand Cantonese…

May 1841 CE

A crowd of around twenty thousand Cantonese villagers and townspeople attack and defeat a company of sixty Indian sepoys on May 29 in what becomes known as the Sanyuanli Incident, and Gough orders a retreat back to the river.

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