Upon arrival in Shanghai, Cooper had filed…

June 1863 CE

Upon arrival in Shanghai, Cooper had filed a report of the attack and dispatched it to the U.S. Consulate in Yokohama, Japan.

The next day, the French naval dispatch steamer Kien Chan is also riding at anchor outside the strait, when rebel Japanese artillery atop the bluffs surrounding Shimonoseki open fire on her.

Kien Chan sustains damage to its engine and suffers four casualties before escaping to the open ocean.

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