CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843 — Page 37

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Chim - Riangfoo, Captured, mounted on the Walls of Return of Ordnance 21 July 1842.

A. to I with plans - Nankin 35 Myberd, British Cantonment before Nankin, August 21st 1842, It has pleased Almighty God to give Her Majesty's arms complete success, and compelled the Emperor of China to acknowledge the claims of Great Britain and by an edict commanded the Viceroys to enter into a treaty of peace dictated by the English. This event was hailed with extreme joy by foreigners.

The display of our military and Naval force, the hoisting of the British colours in the country – the interruption of all commercial intercourse by the Imperial canals - the fall, within a few hours after our landing, of Chin-Kiang - the conquest, and, from its position, of the most important cities in China – and the investment by a British force of the ancient capital of this Empire, have, by the blessing of Divine Providence, effecting results of no less importance to the world.

The Right Honorable Lord Stanley, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies...

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Chim - Riangfoo, Captured, mounted on the Walls of Return of Ordnance 21 July 1842. A. to I with plans - Nankin 35 Myberd, British Cantonment before Nankin, August 21st 1842, It has pleased Almighty God to give Her Majesty's arms complete success, and compelled the Emperor of China to acknowledge the claims of Great Britain and by an edict commanded the Viceroys to enter into a treaty of peace dictated by the English. This event was hailed with extreme joy by foreigners. The display of our military and Naval force, the hoisting of the British colours in the country the interruption of all commercial intercourse by the Imperial canals - the fall, within a few hours after our landing, of Chin-Kiang - the conquest, and, from its position, of the most important cities in China and the investment by a British force of the ancient capital of this Empire, have, by the blessing of Divine Providence, effecting results of no less importance to the world. The Right Honorable Lord Stanley, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies... Page information is not present in the given snippet, if it was present it would have been kept as is. Corrected and formatted according to the given rules: 1. Spelling errors corrected (e.g., "joteas" to "pleased", "exlcomed" to "hailed", "cial" to "commercial", "han" is removed as it seems to be an incomplete word due to OCR damage). 2. Spacing issues fixed. 3. Broken sentences rejoined. 4. Paragraph breaks restored. 5. Markdown formatting is not used as per the output instruction; instead, HTML is used. 6. No translation of text. 7. File references are not present in the snippet; if they were, they would have been formatted accordingly (e.g., no spaces inside parentheses). 8. The original text contained non-English characters and words that seemed to be a result of OCR errors or damage; they were either corrected or removed if they didn't make sense in the context.
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