This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...it impossible for the cannoniers to stand to their guns. The shot of the ships had taken but little effect on the wall; their utmost penetration did not exceed sixteen inches; and Blenheim, 1 killed. Wellesley, wounded, Mr. S. S. L. Crofton, mate, severely; 2 men severely, 1 since dead. Modeste, wounded, 1 slightly. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...it impossible for the cannoniers to stand to their guns. The shot of the ships had taken but little effect on the wall; their utmost penetration did not exceed sixteen inches; and Blenheim, 1 killed. Wellesley, wounded, Mr. S. S. L. Crofton, mate, severely; 2 men severely, 1 since dead. Modeste, wounded, 1 slightly. Bentinck, wounded, 1 dangerously. Phlegethon, wounded, W. H. Ryves, acting lieutenant. Nemesis, wounded, 1 slightly. H.M. 18th Royal Irish, 2 wounded. 49th regiment, 7 wounded. from the way in which it was strengthened it is more than probable that the ships might have fired till doomsday without any material injury to the defenders of the works, whose standing to their guns, as they did, is thus easily accounted for. The Tsungping, Keang Keyun, whose proper station was Que-moy, but who, in consequence of the absence of Tow Chinpew, the naval Chinese commander-inchief, had come from his own post to take the command, finding the day go against him, walked through one of the embrasures and drowned himself. His body was found the following day on the beach. Another high mandarin flying out of the fort, and being so closely pursued as to render his escape impossible, drew a small sword and dexterously cut his throat. Yen-Pihtow, the governor of the Fokien and Chekeang province, was in Amoy; and if he had waited a little longer must have witnessed the capture of its defences. In a subsequent memorial to the emperor, he asks for three millions of taels for the A CHINESE PRISONER. 247 use of the province, and names four more officers as having fallen at Amoy; three as being wounded, with many soldiers slain; and of Keang Keyun he asserts, that he fell into the water and was drowned. A Chinese corporal, who was found with his arm badly fractured by a ro...
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