Battle of Chuenpi
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The First Battle of Chuenpi was a relatively minor naval engagement fought between British and Chinese ships at the entrance of the Humen strait, Guangdong province, China, on 3 November 1839 near the
The Volage and Hyacinth engaging Chinese war junks
Thomas Coutts in 1836
Volage and Hyacinth in Chuenpi
Depiction of the battle by Captain Peter William Hamilton
Lin Zexu
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Lin Zexu, Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent, courtesy name Yuanfu, was a Chinese political philosopher and politician. He was a head of state, Governor General, scholar-official, and under the Daogu
Battle of Chuenpi
…Chinese bond. He held a legal view that Elliot's ban on the signing was not valid under English law. Before Warner left China, Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu gave him a letter addressed to Queen Victoria in which he disapproved the use of opium and requested the opium trade to stop. After arriving in London…
An 1850 painting of Lin
Lin supervising the destruction of opium
The Lin Zexu Memorial in Fuzhou from 2004
Statue of Lin Zexu in Chatham Square in Chinatown, Manhattan, New York City, United States