Battle of Escape Creek explained

Conflict:	Battle of Escape Creek
Partof:	the Second Opium War
Date:	25–27 May 1857
Place:	Escape Creek, Guangdong, China
Coordinates:	23.038°N 113.522°W
Result:	British victory
Combatant2:	Qing China
Commander1:	Charles Elliot
Commander2:	Admiral Sonhay^[1]
Strength1:	13 gunboats 7 cutters & gigs^[2]
Strength2:	41 war-junks
Casualties1:	31 wounded^[3]
Casualties2:	27 junks captured or destroyed

The Battle of Escape Creek was a naval engagement fought between the United Kingdom's Royal Navy and the Qing Chinese naval force on 25–27 May 1857 during the Second Opium War. Commodore Charles Elliot's squadron chased the war-junks at Escape Creek (present-day East River) and then, once the British ships were grounded as the river narrowed, they chased them in the ships' boats until all the junks had been overhauled.^[4]

References

Bibliography

• Behan, T. L., ed. (1859). Bulletins and Other State Intelligence for the Year 1857. Part 2. London: Harrison and Sons.

Further reading

• Cooke, George Wingrove (1861). China and Lower Bengal (5th ed.). London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge. pp. 15–18.

Notes and References

1. Behan 1859, p. 1251
2. Behan 1859, p. 1256
3. Behan 1859, p. 1259
4. Web site: Second Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1856 – 1860 . William Loney . 3 January 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120503184523/http://www.pdavis.nl/China2.htm . 3 May 2012 .