Battle of Zhangjiawan
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Battle of Zhangjiawan () or Battle of Chang-kia-wan was fought by
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and French forces against China at the town of Zhangjiawan (to the east of Tongzhou) during the
Second Opium War The Second Opium War (), also known as the Second Anglo-Sino War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a colonial war lasting from 1856 to 1860, which pitted the British Empire and the French Emp ...
on the morning of 18 September 1860.


Battle

The combined Anglo-French force which had recently occupied
Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...
engaged a Chinese army numbering some 30,000-strong at Zhangjiawan. British cavalry won a battle against Mongolian cavalry, French infantry crushed the defence of Chinese troops, and British-French artillery inflicting massive losses on the Chinese
Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...
army.


Aftermath

Since infantry was the worst part of the Qing army, the Qing commander-in-chief
Sengge Rinchen Sengge Rinchen (1811 – 18 May 1865) or Senggelinqin ( mn, Сэнгэринчен, ᠰᠡᠩᠭᠡᠷᠢᠨᠴᠢᠨ) was a Mongol nobleman and general who served under the Qing dynasty during the reigns of the Daoguang, Xianfeng and Tongzhi em ...
decided to use his cavalry against the Anglo-French forces. The Battle of Palikao took place three days later.


References


Further reading

*Walrond, Theodore, ed. (1872).
Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
'. London: John Murray. pp. 355–358. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhangjiawan, Battle of 1860 in China Battles of the Second Opium War Battles involving France Battles involving the United Kingdom Conflicts in 1860 Zhangjiawan September 1860 events