Major General Gough, having suspected an attack…

May 1841 CE

Major General Gough, having suspected an attack (and as a consequence delaying his own offensive), has consolidated the British forces at Hong Kong and ordered a rapid advance upriver to Canton.

These reinforcements arrive on May 25, and the British counter-attacks, taking the last four Qing forts above Canton and bombarding the city.

The Qing army flees in panic when the city heights are taken, and the British pursue them into the countryside.

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Canton > Guangzhou Guangdong (Kwangtung) China View →

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