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| Description | lithographic engraving. Caption underneath: "Chinese Pictorial Version of the Conflict at Foo-Chow, Repulse of the French Gun-Boats". Accompanying text of the engraving: "CHINESE VICTORY AT FOO-CHOW. It had been generally supposed, from the accounts which have reached Europe, that the gun-boats of the French naval squadron in the Min River bombarded the Foo-Chow Arsenal and the adjacent forts, driving out their garrison with little difficulty, and sinking all the Chinese junks. But a Chinese Special Artist, in the sheet from which we have copied this Engraving, represents a very different scene, the valiant defenders of the place pouring forth a terrible cannonade and fusillade, sending a French vessel to the bottom, while multitudes of the enemy are drowned or shot, the fire of the batteries and troops on shore being assisted by that of a Chinese force afloat on the river. In the aerial region above, the Chinese Governor condemns prisoners to death. Contemporary history, at least in that region of Eastern Asia, seems liable to a considerable degree of variation, according to the point of view occupied by its reporters and chroniclers; and we should not be surprised to learn, from some Chinese book, that the allied British and French armies were once utterly defeated and destroyed in murching towards the city of Pekin." | |||||||||||
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| 02:39, 30 November 2008 |  | 800 × 456 (111 KB) | Arilang1234 | {{Information |Description=1800s painting Fuzhou attack by France |Source=http://www.grandhistorian.com/chinesesiegewarfare/siegewarfare-introduction.html |Date=November 29, 2008 at 18:30 |Author=unknown author 300 years ago |Permission= |other_versions |
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