Battle of Canton (May 1841)

Second Battle of Canton
	Part of the First Opium War
	; The British sailing towards the besieged city on 24 May
Date	21–30 May 1841
Location	Canton, Guangdong, China
Result	British victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom British East India Company;	Qing China
Commanders and leaders
Hugh Gough	Yishan; Yang Fang
Strength
6,000; 2 steamers; 7 other ships	45,000; 4 forts
Casualties and losses
15 killed; 112 wounded	1,000 killed; 3,000 wounded; 4 forts captured
	Casualties source:
	^ The Qing acknowledged that 500 Tartar (Manchu) troops were killed and 1,500 wounded on 25 May. ;

The Second Battle of Canton (Chinese: 第二次廣州之戰) was fought between British and Chinese forces in Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong province, China, in May 1841 during the First Opium War.

^ Examiner: A Weekly Paper on Politics, Literature, Music and the Fine Arts. 1841. 1841. p. 650.
^ MacPherson 1843, pp. 312, 315

[one-2] The Qing acknowledged that 500 Tartar (Manchu) troops were killed and 1,500 wounded on 25 May.

[1] Examiner: A Weekly Paper on Politics, Literature, Music and the Fine Arts. 1841. 1841. p. 650.

[3] MacPherson 1843, pp. 312, 315

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Battle of Canton (May 1841)

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