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fire first. The French crews went to their action stations at 1:30 pm, after eating their midday meal. The Chinese did not react to this obvious threat, and at 1:45 pm the flurry of activity aboard the French ships died down. For the next ten minutes the tension grew aboard the French ships as the minutes ticked away towards 2:00 pm. At 1:55 pm a Chinese mineboat advanced towards the French squadron. Courbet immediately ordered the attack to begin, only five minutes short of his original timetable.
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On the morning of Saturday 23 August, although the Chinese commanders knew that the French would launch their attack at around 2:00 pm, the sailors in both fleets went about their routine business. The ships of the Fujian Fleet made no attempt to redeploy or to anticipate the French attack by opening
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Courbet estimated Chinese casualties at between 2,000 and 3,000 dead. The commemorative tablets in a shrine erected shortly after the war at the Pagoda Anchorage to honour the Chinese dead list the names of 831 sailors and soldiers killed on 23 August, but this list does not include the hundreds of
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One of the factors in the French victory at Fuzhou was that the French squadron had sailed up the Min River in time of peace. The Chinese claimed after the battle, with some justification, that the French would never have been able to ascend the river if the two countries had been at war. A second
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Negotiations between France and China broke down in mid-August, and on the evening of 22 August Courbet was authorised by the French government to commence hostilities. He duly notified the foreign consuls, the governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the commanders of several neutral warships
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Some Chinese historians have asserted that disunity in the Chinese command structure was an important factor in the Chinese defeat. The Chinese regional fleets and armies represented a considerable 'personal' investment of revenue and prestige that was used to leverage influence at court, and the
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The Chinese lost nine of the eleven ships of the Fujian Fleet. Some of the Chinese ships foundered where they were struck, sinking off the Pagoda anchorage and the Foochow Navy Yard. Others drifted downriver and either ran aground or sank between Losing Island and the Min'an pass. French officers
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Courbet's plan provided for overwhelming firepower to be deployed against the Chinese fleet. He had noticed that the Chinese ships swung with the tide, and determined to make his attack just before the top of the tide at 2:00 pm on the following afternoon, Saturday 23 August, when with luck the
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Their spar torpedoes expended, the two French torpedo boats drifted downriver after making their attack, towards the anchorage of the neutral vessels off Losing Island. Lieutenant Latour had been seriously wounded in the eye during the attack, but he refused an offer of medical assistance from
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The losses of the French squadron in the course of the operations before Fuzhou and in the Min River were relatively light (10 dead and 48 wounded). Most of these casualties were inflicted not by shellfire during the engagement of 23 August but by sniper fire from Chinese infantry during the
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were to reduce the three ships of the Chinese southern group, to engage the war junks from the flank, and to engage a battery armed with three Krupp cannon near the Pagoda, and three other batteries armed with Krupp cannon which protected the Arsenal. Their launches would be deployed to give
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Assuming that the Chinese fleet did not change its position, Courbet's orders provided for the French ships to be at action stations at 1:45 pm and to go into action at around 2:00 pm, on his signal. The battle would begin with an attack by Torpedo Boats No. 45 and No. 46 on
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On 25 August, after receiving the congratulations of the captains of the neutral warships on the professionalism displayed by the French squadron during the action of 23 August, Courbet began to lead his ships back down the Min River. The squadron's two heaviest ships,
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lay downstream of the French squadron, dangerously isolated on the southwesterly leg of the river, in front of the Customs building. Their job seems to have been to protect the Customs building and to block Courbet's exit from the Min River.
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s torpedo launch and carried by boarding by Boué de Lapeyrère's sailors. She had already been set alight by French shellfire, and was eventually abandoned by the French prize crew and sank in the middle of the Min River.
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Only a fraction of the Far East squadron was present off the Pagoda Anchorage on the morning of 23 August. In particular, none of the Far East squadron's four ironclads was immediately available.
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The Chinese imperial commissioner Zhang Peilun, who made no serious attempt to coordinate the resistance of the Fujian fleet, was degraded after the battle and replaced by the veteran general
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The French squadron remained off Fuzhou during the night of 24 August. Once again the Chinese tried to make a night attack. At 4:00 am two Chinese torpedo launches tried to attack the gunboat
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would then concentrate on destroying a line of war junks and fireships drawn up just to the west of Losing Island. Once the attack by the torpedo boats had cleared the way, the gunboats
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Chinese ships would have swung away from the French ships and would be presenting their vulnerable sterns to the attackers. This timing was also important for another reason. If
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The Chinese fleet was deployed into a northern group of eight ships and a southern group of three ships, with the French squadron lying in between. The wooden corvette
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August the Chinese made a number of unsuccessful attacks with fireships on the French warships, obliging some of them to shift their anchorages to evade them.
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REPORT OF VICE-ADMIRAL COURBET, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE SQUADRON OF THE EXTREME EAST, TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE AND THE COLONIES, Matsu, September 11, 1884
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On 27 and 28 August the French squadron bombarded and destroyed the Chinese defences at the Jinpai pass near the entrance to the Min River. The Jinpai (
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were deployed on the northwest curve of the river, between the French ships and the Foochow Navy Yard. A little behind them lay the unarmed transports
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had been left at the Jinpai pass, at the entrance to the Min River, to stop the Chinese from laying a barrage to prevent the squadron's escape.
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would sail upriver towards the Navy Yard and take on the other ships of the Chinese northern group. Four steam launches under the command of
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respective fleet commanders were often loath to see these important assets diminished by war damage. The result, at Fuzhou, was that the
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On the morning of 24 August Courbet issued orders for his ships' landing companies to go ashore with the naval engineers to destroy the
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The total number of Chinese casualties stands at 2,000 or 3,000 for the entire battle (i.e. including the descent of the Min River)
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French casualties include all casualties from 23 to 31 August 1884 (i.e. both at Fuzhou and during the descent of the Min River)
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received little help from China's three other regional fleets. Despite appeals from Zhang Peilun and direct orders from the
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Douzans) and grounded. The French torpedo boat suffered damage to her boiler during this attack. The despatch vessel
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Duboc, 252–5; Ferrero, 65–8; Huard, 382–403; Loir, 124–41; Rollet de l'Isle, 171–85; Thomazi, 207–9; Wright, 62–3
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When news of the Bắc Lệ ambush reached Paris, there was fury at what was perceived as blatant Chinese treachery.
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Before they were put out of action the outgunned Chinese vessels concentrated their fire on the French flagship
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defied an order to send two ships from the Beiyang Fleet to Fuzhou, and the Zhejiang governor Liu Bingzhang (
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Instead, the French bombarded the Foochow Navy Yard, damaging a number of outbuildings and holing the sloop
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s bridge during an exchange of fire with the defenders of Fort Kimpai on 27 August. With the exception of
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These were two 27 meters torpedo boats built in Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranée (Graville –
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and son of the noted French admiral Louis-Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (1809–71), who was shot dead on
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successfully ascended the Min River, it was about then that she would be making her appearance.
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was hunting down pirate ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. Courbet had summoned the ironclads
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survived the battle without serious damage, by escaping upriver before the gunboats
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s captain. A few minutes later splinters from an exploding Chinese shell wounded
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and the three French gunboats from attack by the Chinese mineboats. To the east
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Chinese soldiers killed by the French during their descent of the Min River.
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and Torpedo Boat No. 46, none of Courbet's vessels suffered serious damage.
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important factor was the absence from the battle of the modern battleships
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Courbet had under his immediate command the first-class cruisers
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squadron's descent of the Min River. The French dead included
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leads the way into the Min'an pass, followed by the ironclad
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had been detained at Keelung by bad weather, and although
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declined to send ships to reinforce the Fujian Fleet.
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moored at the Pagoda Anchorage (the British gunboats
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171:"Battle of Fuzhou" 69:"Battle of Fuzhou" 4567:Conflicts in 1884 4522: 4521: 4518: 4517: 4482: 4481: 4478: 4477: 4474: 4473: 4417:Amsterdam Islands 4408:Kerguelen Islands 4356:Clipperton Island 4327: 4326: 4323: 4322: 4295:Wallis and Futuna 4163: 4162: 4159: 4158: 4063:Mandate for Syria 4053:Kouang-Tchéou-Wan 4015:Indochinese Union 3922: 3921: 3719: 3718: 3632:Equatorial Africa 3434: 3433: 3411:Far East Squadron 3372:Armies and fleets 3246:Battle of Bang Bo 3236:Battle of Hòa Mộc 3231:Battle of Zhenhai 3221:Lạng Sơn campaign 3211:Battle of Núi Bop 2805:978-83-61421-53-5 2133:Foochow Navy Yard 1818:Foochow Navy Yard 1800:Fleet deployments 1797: 1796: 1722:Northern Fork of 1586: 1585: 1498:515 tons, 3 guns 1251: 1250: 714:Foochow Navy Yard 685:Foochow Navy Yard 665:Far East Squadron 618:Battle of Foochow 607: 606: 449: 448: 431:10+ ships damaged 410: 391:Far East Squadron 310: 309: 284:23-26 August 1884 232: 231: 224: 206: 130: 129: 122: 104: 18:Battle of Foochow 16:(Redirected from 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