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Battle Of Zhenhai
The Battle of Zhenhai () was a minor confrontation that took place on 1March 1885 between Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron (''escadre de l’extrême-Orient'') and Chinese warships and shore batteries near the coastal city of Zhenhai, downstream from Ningbo, China during the Sino-French War (August 1884April 1885). French and Chinese sources disagree sharply as to what happened; French sources treat the encounter as a minor incident, while Chinese sources consider it a striking defensive victory. The Battle of Zhenhai is still commemorated in China as an important Chinese victory in the Sino-French War. Background In early February 1885 part of Admiral Courbet's Far East Squadron left Keelung to head off a threatened attempt by part of the Chinese Nanyang Fleet (Southern Seas fleet) to break the French blockade of Formosa (Taiwan). On 11February Courbet's task force met the cruisers ''Kaiji'' (開濟), ''Nanchen'' (南琛) and ''Nanrui'' (南瑞), three of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Zhenhai (2)
The Battle of Zhenhai () was a minor confrontation that took place on 1March 1885 between Admiral Amédée Courbet's Far East Squadron (''escadre de l’extrême-Orient'') and Chinese warships and shore batteries near the coastal city of Zhenhai, downstream from Ningbo, China during the Sino-French War (August 1884April 1885). French and Chinese sources disagree sharply as to what happened; French sources treat the encounter as a minor incident, while Chinese sources consider it a striking defensive victory. The Battle of Zhenhai is still commemorated in China as an important Chinese victory in the Sino-French War. Background In early February 1885 part of Admiral Courbet's Far East Squadron left Keelung to head off a threatened attempt by part of the Chinese Nanyang Fleet (Southern Seas fleet) to break the French blockade of Formosa (Taiwan). On 11February Courbet's task force met the cruisers ''Kaiji'' (開濟), ''Nanchen'' (南琛) and ''Nanrui'' (南瑞), three of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sino-French War
The Sino-French War (, french: Guerre franco-chinoise, vi, Chiến tranh Pháp-Thanh), also known as the Tonkin War and Tonquin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 to April 1885. There was no declaration of war. The Chinese armies performed better than its List of Chinese wars and battles#Qing dynasty (1644–1912), other nineteenth-century wars and the war ended with French retreat on land and the momentum in China's favor. However lack of foreign support, French naval supremacy, and northern threats posed by Russia and Japan forced China to enter negotiations. China ceded its sphere of influence in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) to France and recognized all the French treaties with Annam (French protectorate), Annam turning it into a French protectorate. The war strengthened the dominance of Empress Dowager Cixi over the Chinese government, but brought down the government of Prime Minister Jules Ferry in Paris. Both sides ratified the Treaty of Tientsin (1885), Trea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanyang Fleet
The Nanyang Fleet () was one of the four modernised Chinese naval fleets in the late Qing Dynasty. Established in the 1870s, the fleet suffered losses in the Sino-French War, escaped intact in the Sino-Japanese War, and was formally abolished in 1909. Composition, 1884 Before 1885 the Southern Seas (Nanyang) Fleet, based at Shanghai, was the largest of China's four regional fleets. In the early 1880s its best ships were the modern composite cruiser ''Kaiji'', completed in 1884 at the Foochow Navy Yard, the composite sloops ''Kangji'' and ''Chengching'', also recent products of the Foochow Navy Yard (1878 and 1880), and the 2,630-ton wooden steam frigate ''Yuyuan'', built at the Kiangnan Arsenal in 1873. The fleet was originally to have had the four steel Rendel gunboats ''Zhendong'', ''Zhenxi'', ''Zhennan'' and ''Zhenbei'', completed in 1879, but Li Hongzhang was so impressed by them that he took them over for the Beiyang Fleet, compensating the Nanyang Fleet with ''Longxiang'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Battles Of The Sino-French War
A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval warfare, naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake-borne, riverine, littoral zone, littoral, or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions. It includes anything conducted by surface Naval ship, ships, amphibious warfare, amphibious ships, submarines, and seaborne naval aviation, aviation, as well as ancillary support, communications, training, and other fields. The strategic offensive role of a navy is Power projection, projection of force into areas beyond a country's shores (for example, to protect Sea lane, sea-lanes, deter or confront piracy, ferry troops, or attack other navies, ports, or shore installations). The strategic defensive purpose of a navy is to frustrate seaborne projection-of-force by enemies. The strategic task of the navy also may incorporate nuclear deterrence by use of submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Naval operations can be broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In France
Events from the year 1885 in France. Incumbents *President of France, President: Jules Grévy *Prime Minister of France, President of the Council of Ministers: Jules Ferry (until 6 April), Henri Brisson (starting 6 April) Events * 28 February – Siege of Tuyên Quang ends, as French Foreign Legion is relieved after being besieged by forces of the Late Imperial China, Empire of China. * 23 March – Battle of Bang Bo in Vietnam, significant battle of the Sino-French War and French defeat. Led to the Tonkin Affair, a major political crisis. * 28 March – French abandon Lạng Sơn. * 9 June – Sino-French War ends as treaty is signed. * 14 October – 1885 French legislative election, Legislative Election held. * 18 October – Legislative Election held. Births January to June * 8 January – Charles Basle, motor racing driver (died 1962 in France, 1962) * 22 January – Eugène Christophe, cyclist (died 1970 in France, 1970) * 28 January – Maurice Brocco, cyclist (died 1965 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1885 In China
Events in the year 1885 in China. Incumbents * Guangxu Emperor (11th year) ** Regent: Empress Dowager Cixi Events *Sino-French War **January 3–4 - Battle of Núi Bop **February 3–13 - Lạng Sơn Campaign **February 14 - Battle of Shipu **February 23 - Battle of Đồng Đăng (1885), Battle of Đồng Đăng **March 1 - Battle of Zhenhai **March 2 - Battle of Hòa Mộc **March 23 - Battle of Phu Lam Tao **March 24 - Battle of Bang Bo (Zhennan Pass) **June 9 - Treaty of Tientsin (1885), Sino-French War ends Births *October 30 - Song Zheyuan *Su Zhaozheng Deaths *September 5 - Zuo Zongtang {{Year in Asia, 1885 1885 in China, Years of the 19th century in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conflicts In 1885
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Pescadores Campaign (1885)
The Pescadores campaign which took place in late March, 1885, was one of the last campaigns of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). It was fought to capture the Pescadores, a strategically important archipelago off the western coast of Formosa (Taiwan). Admiral Amédée Courbet, with part of the French Far East Squadron, bombarded the Chinese coastal defences around the principal town of Makung (馬公) on Penghu Island (澎湖島) and landed a battalion of marine infantry which routed the Chinese defenders and occupied Makung. The Pescadores were occupied by the French until July 1885 and Admiral Courbet, by then a national hero in France, died aboard his flagship ''Bayard'' in Makung harbour during the occupation. Background The Pescadores Islands, also known from their Chinese name as P'eng-hu (澎湖), were an important transit stop for reinforcements to the Chinese army under the command of Liu Ming-ch'uan (劉銘傳) confronting the French in northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Print Of Battle Of Zhenhai
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Zhenhai Battle Chinese Print
Zhenhai is a district and former county of the sub-provincial city of Ningbo in Zhejiang Province in eastern China. It has a population of 200,000. History The town of Zhenhai grew up at the foot of Zhaobao Hill on a tongue of land at the mouth of the Yong River about north-east of central Ningbo. Under the Qing, the city walls covered a circuit of and rose to . The British captured Zhenhai on 10 October 1841 during the First Opium War, dismantling its former citadel. The Zhenhai Coastal Battery was the site of the 1885 Battle of Zhenhai during the Sino-French War. In the later 19th century, Zhenhai was protected from the sea by a dike about long, made of large blocks of hewn granite. Zhenhai has suffered severe long-term air pollution mainly emanating from the Ningbo Petro-Chemical Economic and Technical Development Zone built on its eastern coast. The zone is home to nearly 200 chemical plants including Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Corporation (ZRCC), a subsid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
