Fatshan
Britishnoun
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In 1856 he commissioned the “Acorn” brig for the China station, and arrived in time to take part in the destruction of the junks in Fatshan creek on the 1st of June 1857, and in the capture of Canton in the following December, for which, in February 1858, he received a post-captain’s commission.
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Next an attack was delivered on the Chinese headquarters at Fatshan.
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The Commodore's boat was Assault on Fatshan sunk and several others had to be abandoned.
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Keppel's force was found too small to capture Fatshan.
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I was out here, sir, in the Fatshan affair up the Canton River in ’57, and I remember as we boarded the junks on one side, all of us racing after them up the creek, the yellow devils would jump out on the other, without standing up against us for an instant.”
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