The French Navy retaliates on July 20…

July 1863 CE

The French Navy retaliates on July 20 for the attack on their merchant ship.

The French force consists of marines and two warships, the aviso Tancrède and the Admiral's flagship, Semiramis.

With two hundred and fifty men, under Captain Benjamin Jaurès, they sweepinto Shimonoseki and destroy a small town, together with at least one artillery emplacement.

The intervention is supported by the French plenipotentiary in Japan, Duchesne de Bellecourt, but the French government, once informed, will strongly criticize their representatives in Japan for taking such bellicose steps, for the reason that France has much more important military commitments to honor in other parts of the world, and cannot afford a conflict in Japan.

Duchesne de Bellecourt will be relieved from his position in 1864.

Jaurès also will be congratulated by the Shogunal government for taking such decisive steps against anti-foreign forces, and will be awarded a special banner.

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