Chapter XXIII: Appendix: C

MEMORANDUM OF TI-PINGS KILLED DURING THE BRITISH HOSTILITIES AGAINST THEM.

+----------------------+----------+---------------+---------+-------------+ | | | | Number |British, or | | Where Killed. | Date. |By what Forces.| Killed. |Allied, | | | | | |Casualties. | +----------------------+----------+---------------+---------+-------------+ |Before Shanghae, |August, |British and | 300 |Nil. | |while striving |1860. |French. | | | |to peaceably | | | | | |negotiate. | | | | | | | | | | | |Near the city of |December, |Ward's | 2,000 |100 killed | |Soong-kong (twenty |1861. |disciplined | |and | |miles from Shanghae). | |Contingent | |wounded. | | | | | | | |At the capture of the |21st |British and | 150 |1 killed by | |village Kao-kiau. |February, |French. | |a stray shot.| | |1862. | | | | | | | | | | |During the capture |1st |Ditto. | 1,300 |Nil. | |of stockades at |March, | | | | |Ming-hong. |1862. | | | | | | | | | | |At capture of |4th |Ditto. | 600 |1 killed, | |Wong-ka-dzu stockades.|April, | | |1 wounded. | | |1862. | | | | | | | | | | |Capture of the village|5th |Admiral | 300 |Nil. | |of Lu-ka-kong. |April, |Hope's and | | | | |1862. |Ward's forces. | | | | | | | | | |At the village of |17th |British, | 900 |Nil. | |Che-poo. |April, |French, | | | | |1862. |and | | | | | |Ward's forces. | | | | | | | | | |At the capture of the |1st |Allied British,| 3,500 |5 or 6 | |city of Kah-ding. |May, |French, and | |wounded. | | |1862. |Imperialists. | | | | | | | | | |At the capture of the |12th |Ditto. | 2,500 |2 killed, | |city of Tsing-poo. |May, | | |10 wounded. | | |1862. | | | | | | | | | | |At the capture of the |17th |British and | 500 |French | |village of Na-joor. |May, |French. | |admiral | | |1862. | | |killed, 16 | | | | | |men wounded. | | | | | | | |At the capture of the |20th |Ditto. | 3,000 |1 killed, | |town of Cho-lin. |May, | | |4 wounded. | | |1862. | | | | | | | | | | |During an engagement |31st |British naval | 300 |1 killed, | |near Kah-ding. |May, |& military | |4 wounded. | | |1862. |forces | | | | | | | | | |Upon the expulsion of |10th |British, | 150 |3 killed, | |the Ti-pings from |May |French, | |23 wounded. | |Ningpo. |1862. |and piratical | | | | | |flotilla. | | | | | | | | | |During the recapture |June, |British, | 5,000 |About 100, | |of Kah-ding, |July & |French, | |all told. | |Tsing-poo, Cho-lin, |August, |and | | | |Chee-poo, &c., by |1862. |Imperialists. | | | |the Ti-pings. | | | | | | | | | | | |During the operations |August, |Force under | 20,000 |About 2,000 | |in the Ningpo |1862, |Capt. R. Dew, | |or 3,000. | |district, leading to |to the |R.N., | | | |the capture of |end of |Anglo-Manchoo, | | | |Tse-kie, Yu-yaon, |1863. |Franco-Manchoo,| | | |Fung-wha, Shou-sing, | |and Imperialist| | | |and other cities. | |troops. | | | | | | | | | |At the second capture |24th |British, | 1,500 |4 killed, | |of Kah-ding. |October, |French, | |20 wounded. | | |1862. |and | | | | | |Imperialists. | | | | | | | | | |Engagement during |November, |British, Ward's| 3,000 |5 killed, | |Ti-ping attempt to |1862 |force, and | |15 wounded. | |recapture Kah-ding. | |Imperialists | | | | | | | | | |During the repulse of |14th |Anglo-Manchoo | 1,000 |2,500 killed | |the attack on Tait-san|February, |Contingent | |& wounded. | | |1863 |and Imperial | | | | | |troops. | | | | | | | | | |Capture of Fu-shan |6th April,|Filibuster | 1,200 |2 killed, | |village, and relief of|1863 |_General_ | |3 wounded. | |Chang-zu | |Gordon's force.| | | | | | | | | |Capture of the city of|2nd May, |British, | 2,000 |200 _hors de | |Tait-san |1863 |Gordon's | |combat_. | | | |and Imperial | | | | | |forces. | | | | | | | | | |Massacre of Ti-pings |30th May, |The | 3,000 |Gordon's | |during their |1863 |Anglo-Manchoo | |force, | |evacuation of the | |disciplined and| |2 killed and | |city of Quin-san. | |foreign- | |5 drowned; | | | |officered | |Imperialist | | | |Contingent, and| |loss, about | | | |an Imperialist | |300. | | | |army. | | | | | | | | | |During the retreat of |June, |Died of | 40,000 |Loss of | |the Chung-wang's army |1863 |starvation, | |Imperialist | |from the northern | |made prisoners | |troops, 2,000| |provinces; caused by | |and executed by| |to 3,000. | |the British | |Imperialists, | | | |hostilities in the | |and killed in | | | |neighbourhood of | |action. | | | |Shanghae and Ningpo. | | | | | | | | | | | |At the capture of |29th |Anglo-Manchoo | 150 |1 killed, 15 | |Wo-kong city |July, |Contingent and | |wounded. | | |1863 |Imperialists | | | | | | | | | |Engagements at |5th, 6th, |Ditto. | 1,000 |50 to 100. | |Kah-poo. |& 7th | | | | | |Aug. | | | | | |1863. | | | | | | | | | | |Engagements in the |October, |Ditto. | 3,500 |About 200. | |neighbourhood of |1863. | | | | |Wo-kong. | | | | | | | | | | | |Engagements before |September,|English, | 6,000 |About 2,000. | |Soo-chow, and capture |October, |French, and | | | |of stockades outside |November, |other | | | |the city. |and |disciplined | | | | |December. |Contingents, | | | | | |assisted by a | | | | | |Imperialist | | | | | |army. | | | | | | | | | |The Soo-chow massacre |3rd |Imperialists. | 30,000 |Nil. | |upon capture of the |December, | |Estimated| | |city. |and | |by both | | | |subsequent| |Imps. & | | | |days. | |Ti-Pings | | | | | |at this | | | | | |No. | | | | | | | | |Engagements around |November &|Ditto. | 4,000 |5,000. | |Wu-see and |December. | | | | |Chang-chow-foo | | | | | | | | | | | |Upon occupation of |12th |Contingents and| 6,000 |Nil. | |Wu-see (civilians put |December. |Imperialists | | | |to death) | | | | | | | | | | | |Capture of Yih-sing. |3rd or 4th|English | 500 |About a dozen| | |March, |Contingent. | | casualties. | | |1864. | | | | | | | | | | |Defeat of Gordon's |20th |Ditto. | 600 |About 150. | |force before Kin-tang.|March, | | | | | |1864. | | | | | | | | | | |Defeat of Gordon's |30th |Ditto. | 100 |About 207. | |force at Hwa-soo. |March, | | | | | |1864. | | | | | | | | | | |Assaults upon |Jan., |English & | 5,000 |Loss of | |Hang-chow (capital of |Feb.; and |French | |Contingents, | |Che-kiang), capture of|Mar. 2nd, |Contingents, | |600; | |Fo-yang, and other |and 29th; |and several | |Imperialists,| |cities in the same |April and |large | |3,000. | |district. |May, 1864.|Imperialist | | | | | |armies. | | | | | | | | | |Massacre of |End of |Imperialists | 7,000 |Loss of | |non-combatants after |March, |and detachments| |Imperilists | |capture of |1864. |of English | |and | |Kar-sing-foo. | |Contingent. | |detachment | | | | | |under _Col._ | | | | | |Bailey during| | | | | |the seige | | | | | |1,000. | | | | | | | |Defeat of Ti-pings, |11th |Imperialists | 8,000 |Loss of | |and massacre of |April, |and English | |Allies, 100. | |prisoners, at the |1864. |Contingent | | | |village of Hwa-soo. | |under Gordon. | | | | | | | | | |Repulse of Imperialist|24th and |Ditto. | 3,500 |427 of | |assaults upon |25th | | |Contingent, | |Chang-chow-foo |April, | | |1,500 | | |1864. | | |Imperialists.| | | | | | | |Capture of Chang-chow,|11th May, |Ditto. |About |7 of | |massacre of garrison |1864. | | 20,000 |Contingent, | |and inhabitants. | | | |300 | | | | | |Imperialists.| | | | | | | |During the capture of |May to |Principally |About |2,000 or | |Tan-yang, Kin-tang, |September,|Imperialists, | 10,000 |3,000. | |Ly-hong, and all other|1864 |assisted by all| | | |Ti-ping towns, besides| |foreign | | | |the districts in which| |Contingents | | | |they are situated, | |except | | | |subsequent to the fall| |Gordon's. | | | |of Chang-chow-foo. | | | | | | | | | | | |During the siege of |Ditto. |Imperialists | 70,000 | Nil. | |Nankin about 70,000 | |advised by | | | |people perished from | |Gordon, | | | |famine within its | |assisted by | | | |walls. | |French | | | | | |officers. | | | | | | | | | |Killed during the |Ditto. |Ditto. | 10,000 |5,000 to | |siege. | | | |10,000. | | | | | | | |Massacred after the |18th & | .. .. | 30,000 |Very small. | |capture of the city. |19th July,| | | | | |and | | | | | |subsequent| | | | | |days. | | | | | | | | | | |Killed during the |January to|Imperialists | 15,000 |9,000 to | |siege and fall of |September,|and French | |10,000. | |Hoo-chow-foo. |1864. |Contingents. | | | | | | | | | |A rough estimate of |August, |Imperialists, | 50,000 |Much less. | |the number of people |1860, to |English, & | | | |killed during all the |September,|French. | | | |actions not recorded, |1864. | | | | |captures of villages, | | | | | |skirmishes, &c., which| | | | | |were innumerable. | | | | | | | | | | | |To the above may be | .. .. | .. .. |2,500,000| | |added _at least_ | | | | | |2,000,000 to 3,000,000| | | | | |people who perished | | | | | |from the terrible | | | | | |famine occasioned, | | | | | |during the years 1863 | | | | | |and 4, by the allied | | | | | |operations, whilst the| | | | | |Ti-pings were being | | | | | |driven from their | | | | | |territories, and the | | | | | |whole country so | | | | | |utterly desolated as | | | | | |to be covered with the| | | | | |bodies of the starved | | | | | |and dying. | | | | | +----------------------+----------+---------------+---------+-------------+ | TOTAL NUMBER OF TI-PINGS KILLED AND |2,872,550| | | DESTROYED BY THE BRITISH INTERVENTION | | | +-------------------------------------------------+---------+-------------+

COX AND WYMAN,
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Transcriber's Notes

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Inconsistent transcription and hyphenation of Chinese names have not been changed.

Hyphen removed: blood[-]thirsty (p. 704). gold[-]leaf (p. 769), gun[-]boat(s) (pp. 513, 706, 778), out[-]work (p. 510), pic[-]nic (p. 512), re[-]cature/ed/ing (pp. 582, 583, 590, 820), re[-]manned (p. 516), re[-]taken (p. 584), round[-]about (p. 479), treaty port (p. 445), under[-]weigh (p. 426).

Hyphen added: artillery[-]men (p. 452), breast[-]work (p. 749, 752), co[-]adjutor (p. 453), eye[-]witnesses (p. 741), half[-]way (p. 599), loop[-]hole (p. 608).

Manilla-man/men used consistently instead of two words (pp. 653, 655, 656) or one word (p. 591).

The following variants appear and have not been changed: firearms and fire-arms, _li_ and _le_ (although _li_ is the more usual romanization of the Chinese measure of distance).

P. 443: "griped" changed to "gripped" (had barely gripped me).

P. 457: "poperty" changed to "property" (the letting of their property).

P. 460: "adminstrator" changed to "administrator" (neither a general nor an administrator).

P. 472: "and" added (between himself and a young Ti-ping soldier).

P. 477: "prefered" changed to "preferred" (the Ti-pings preferred that course).

PP. 484, 494: "Great Britian" changed to "Great Britain".

P. 488: "detaind" changed to "detained" (we were detained for a long while).

P. 508: "inadvertant" changed to "inadvertent" (inadvertent contradictions).

P. 513: extra "a" removed (desolating raid into a country).

P. 521: "infested" changed to "invested" (Soon-kong were also invested).

P. 549: "administratve" changed to "administrative" (the Government and administrative machinery).

P. 553: "simulocrum" changed to "simulacrum" (bolster up the tottering _simulacrum_).

P. 557: "5,20,72,358" changed to "52,072,358".

P. 565: Enumerated item "D" changed to "B".

P. 571: "oratical" changed to "oratorical" (At the oratorical display).

P. 571: "allevated" changed to "alleviated" (the distress could be alleviated).

PP. 580, 582, 601: "Sherard" changed to "Sherrard" (Captain Sherrard Osborne).

P. 605: "fusilade" changed to "fusillade" (kept up a fusillade).

P. 608: "Subsquently" changed to "Subsequently" (Subsquently other legions).

P. 613: "fourteeen" changed to "fourteen" (heads of fourteen women).

P. 640: "Europeons" changed to "Europeans" (the Europeans working).

PP. 655, 656, 660, 701: "Marcartney" changed to "Macartney" on the assumption that the person mentioned is Sir Halliday Macartney, KCMG, MD.

P. 658: "Manoeuvring" changed to "Manoeuvering" in contents.

P. 670: "become" changed to "became" (the bad news became confirmed).

P. 689: "threefrom" changed to "therefrom" (and deduct threrefrom).

P. 689: "agressive" changed to "aggressive" (aggressive bullying of the weak).

P. 697: "Major Bailey" changed to "Major Baily".

P. 705: "occurence" changed to "occurrence" (the occurrence of that tragedy).

P. 709: "began" changed to "begun" (for scarcely had Morton and his regiment begun to engage).

P. 713: "compensataion" changed to "compensation" (he would give the men compensation).

P. 727: "knowng" changed to "knowing" (knowing as I do).

P. 749: "deperate" changed to "desperate" (with desperate bravery).

P. 799: "belligerants" changed to "belligerents" (had been recognised as belligerents).

P. 805: added "in" (At the death of Alexander in).

P. 806: "Mauchuria" changed to "Manchuria".

P. 807: "territors" changed to "territories" (the territories of the Kirghiz).

P. 828: "somtimes" changed to "sometimes" (It was sometimes disobeyed).

P. 841 (last entry in table): "Imperilaists" changed to "Imperialists".