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nel was
This intelligen ee brought to Hongkong by a French man-of-war, the Captain of which
told me that the attack was
-made on the 29th ultimo by a Admiral Courbet, with a squadron of two ironclads and two other ships. There were two Forts
oy.
which the Chinese had mounted
but they
overe
some heavy guns, destroyed after a brief bombardment,
when the French landed, and occupied the place. Their loss was
-only three Willed and ten wounded,
while
while the total loss of the Chinese-
is estimated at six hundred
Killed and wounded.
3.
from.
In
reply to a question me, the French Captain (who
had been engaged in the action), told me that he did not believe
that France would retain the
Pescadores islands permanently, and that they had been captured chiefly
as a
set-off against the recent re- capture by the Chinese of Langson
in
Tonquin,
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The Pescadores, or Fishermen's
Islands
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