Battle of Fatshan Creek
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| Battle of Fatshan Creek | |||||||
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| Part of Piracy in Asia | |||||||
 The advance of the British boats during the naval battle at Fatshan Creek by Oswald Walter Brierly. |
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 United Kingdom |
Chinese Pirates | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Henry Keppel |
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| 1 sloop-of-war 1 steamer 7 gunboats |
Land: 1 fort 1 shore battery Sea: ~100 war-junks |
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The Battle of Fatshan Creek was a naval engagement fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and Chinese pirates on June 1, 1857. Commodore Henry Keppel sought out and destroyed the Chinese fleet before advancing to the city of Canton for its capture.
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
- freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../Chap_08.htm
