Military Sketch of the Operations against the City of Chin-Keang on the Yang-tse-keang By a Military Force Under... Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Gough, G.C.B.... Prepared from a Copy of the Field Engineer's Plan, lithographed plan with some hand-colouring and colour-key, SEVERAL MANUSCRIPT AMENDMENTS to the text in an early hand, light old fold creases, mounted, framed and glazed, sheet 375 x 445mm., n.d. [after 1842]

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A plan, annotated in colour and with manuscript additions, depicting the military operation led by Lord Saltoun's 1st Brigade against the Chinese at Chn-Kiang (Zhenjiang) on 21 July, 1842, during which the Chinese military commander, Hai-lin, was burned in his house, and which resulted in the Chinese suing for peace to bring to a close the First Opium war. It is annotated with the addition of information on the position of H.M.S. Auckland in the Yangtse River, and places it shelled "on the ramparts where Tartar troops opposed part of the 2nd Brigade", and also showing positions of other British troops not identified on the printed map key.

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