Only nineteen hundred of the thirty-three hundred…

January 1840 CE

Only nineteen hundred of the thirty-three hundred men who had originally occupied Dinghai are left by the beginning of 1841, with many of those remaining incapable of fighting.

An estimated five hundred British soldiers have died from disease, with the Cameron and Bengali volunteers suffering the most deaths, while the Royal Marines are relatively unscathed.

Having captured Dinghai, the British expedition divided its forces, sending one fleet south to the Pearl River while sending a second fleet north to the Yellow Sea.

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Dinghai Zhejiang (Chekiang) China View →

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Daoguang Emperor View → Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston View → Lin Zexu View →

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Chinese Empire, Qing (Manchu) Dynasty View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Jardine, Matheson & Co. View →

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Opium War, First View → Chinese Rebellion & Reaction 1840-51 View →

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