Convention of Chuenpi
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The Convention of Chuenpi was a tentative agreement between British Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade in China Charles Elliot and Qing Imperial Commissioner Qishan during the First Opium War
Cage with Anne Noble. Her husband Captain John Noble and infant son died in the Kite shipwreck en route to Zhoushan. She was later released with other prisoners in exchange for the evacuation of Zhoushan.
The British possession ceremony in Hong Kong
View looking up the Bocca Tigris to the Second Bar pagoda, where the banquet took place
Encampment where Elliot met Qishan
First Opium War
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The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and Qing China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chine
Convention of Chuenpi
…tentative agreement between British Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade in China Charles Elliot and Qing Imperial Commissioner Qishan during the First Opium War between the United Kingdom and the Qing dynasty of China. The terms were published on 20 January 1841, but both governments rejected them and dismissed…
The East India Company steamship Nemesis (right background) destroying war junks during the Second Battle of Chuenpi, 7 January 1841
View of Guangzhou with merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company, c. 1665
View of the European factories in Guangzhou
Chinese opium smokers