Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II)

by Augustus F. Lindley

Where Killed.	Date.	By what Forces.	Number Killed.	British, or Allied, Casualties.
Before Shanghae,	August, 1860.	British and French.	300	Nil.
while striving
to peaceably negotiate.
Near the city of	December, 1861.	Ward's disciplined	2,000	100 killed and wounded.
Soong-kong (twenty		Contingent.
miles from Shanghae).
At the capture of the	21st February, 1862.	British and French.	150	1 killed by a stray shot.
village Kao-kiau.
During the capture	1st March, 1862.	Ditto.	1,300	Nil.
of stockades at Ming-hong.
At capture of	4th April, 1862.	Ditto.	600	1 killed, 1 wounded.
Wong-ka-dzu stockades.
Capture of the village	5th April, 1862.	Admiral Hope's and	300	Nil.
of Lu-ka-kong.		Ward's forces.
At the village of Che-poo.	17th April, 1862.	British, French,	900	Nil.
		and Ward's forces.
At the capture of the	1st May, 1862.	Allied British, French,	3,500	5 or 6 wounded.
city of Kah-ding.		and Imperialists.
At the capture of the	12th May, 1862.	Ditto.	2,500	2 killed, 10 wounded.
city of Tsing-poo.
At the capture of the	17th May, 1862.	British and French.	500	French admiral killed,
village of Na-joor.				16 men wounded.
At the capture of the	20th May, 1862.	Ditto.	3,000	1 killed, 4 wounded.
town of Cho-lin.
During an engagement	31st May, 1862.	British naval & military	300	1 killed, 4 wounded.
near Kah-ding.		forces.
Upon the expulsion of	10th May 1862.	British, French,	150	3 killed, 23 wounded.
the Ti-pings from Ningpo.		and piratical flotilla.
During the recapture	June, July & August,	British, French and	5,000	About 100, all told.
of Kah-ding, Tsing-poo,	1862.	Imperialists.
Cho-lin, Chee-poo, &c.,
by the Ti-pings.
During the operations	August, 1862,	Force under	20,000	About 2,000 or 3,000.
in the Ningpo district,	to the end of 1863.	Capt. R. Dew, R.N.,
leading to the capture of		Anglo-Manchoo,
Tse-kie, Yu-yaon, Fung-wha,		Franco-Manchoo,
Shou-sing, and other cities.		and Imperialist troops.
At the second capture	24th October, 1862.	British, French,	1,500	4 killed, 20 wounded.
of Kah-ding.		and Imperialists.
Engagement during	November, 1862.	British, Ward's	3,000	5 killed, 15 wounded.
Ti-ping attempt to		force, and Imperialists.
recapture Kah-ding.
During the repulse of	14th February, 1863.	Anglo-Manchoo	1,000	2,500 killed & wounded.
the attack on Tait-san.		Contingent
		and Imperial troops.
Capture of Fu-shan village,	6th April, 1863.	Filibuster General	1,200	2 killed, 3 wounded.
and relief of Chang-zu.		Gordon's force.
Capture of the city of	2nd May, 1863.	British, Gordon's	2,000	200 hors de combat.
Tait-san.		and Imperial forces.
Massacre of Ti-pings	30th May, 1863.	The Anglo-Manchoo	3,000	Gordon's force, 2 killed
during their		disciplined and		and 5 drowned; Imperialist
evacuation of the		foreign-officered		loss, about 300.
city of Quin-san.		Contingent, and
		an Imperialist arrm.
During the retreat of the	June, 1863.	Died of starvation,	40,000	Loss of Imperialist troops,
Chung-wang's army from the		made prisoners and		2,000 to 3,000.
northern provinces; caused by		executed by Imperialists,
the British hostilities in the		and killed in action.
neighbourhood of
Shanghae and Ningpo.
At the capture of	29th July, 1863.	Anglo-Manchoo	150	1 killed, 15 wounded.
Wo-kong city		Contingent and
		Imperialists.
Engagements at	5th, 6th, & 7th	Ditto.	1,000	50 to 100.
Kah-poo.	Aug. 1863.
Engagements in the	October, 1863.	Ditto.	3,500	About 200.
neighbourhood of Wo-kong.
Engagements before	September,	English, French,	6,000	About 2,000.
Soo-chow, and capture	October,	and other disciplined
of stockades outside	November,	Contingents, assisted by a
the city.	and December.	large Imperialist army.
The Soo-chow massacre	3rd December,	Imperialists. Estimated	30,000	Nil.
upon capture of the city.	and subsequent days.	by both Imps. &
		Ti-Pings at this No.
Engagements around	November &	Ditto.	4,000	5,000.
Wu-see and Chang-chow-foo.	December.
Upon occupation of Wu-see	12th December.	Contingents and	6,000	Nil.
(civilians put to death).		Imperialists
Capture of Yih-sing.	3rd or 4th	English	500	About a dozen casualties.
	March, 1864.	Contingent.
Defeat of Gordon's	20th March, 1864.	Ditto.	600	About 150.
force before Kin-tang.
Defeat of Gordon's	30th March, 1864.	Ditto.	100	About 207.
force at Hwa-soo.
Assaults upon Hang-chow	Jan., Feb.; and	English & French	5,000	Loss of Contingents, 600;
(capital of Che-kiang),	Mar. 2nd, and 29th;	Contingents, and several		Imperialists, 3,000.
capture of Fo-yang, and other	April and May, 1864.	large Imperialist armies.
cities in the same district.
Massacre of non-combatants	End of March, 1864.	Imperialists and	7,000	Loss of Imperilists and
after capture of Kar-sing-foo.		detachments of English		detachment under Col.
		Contingent.		Bailey during the siege, 1000.
Defeat of Ti-pings,	11th April, 1864.	Imperialists and	8,000	Loss of Allies, 100.
and massacre of prisoners,		English Contingent
at the village of Hwa-soo.		under Gordon.
Repulse of Imperialist	24th and 25th	Ditto.	3,500	427 of Contingent,
assaults upon Chang-chow-foo.	April, 1864.			1,500 Imperialists.
Capture of Chang-chow,	11th May, 1864.	Ditto.	About 20,000	7 of Contingent,
massacre of garrison				300 Imperialists.
and inhabitants.
During the capture of	May to September,	Principally Imperialists,	About 10,000	2,000 or 3,000.
Tan-yang, Kin-tang, Ly-hong,	1864.	assisted by all
and all other Ti-ping towns,		foreign Contingents
besides the districts		except Gordon's.
in which they are situated,
subsequent to the fall
of Chang-chow-foo.
During the siege of	Ditto.	Imperialists	70,000	Nil.
Nankin about 70,000		advised by Gordon,
people perished from		assisted by
famine within its walls.		French officers.
Killed during the siege.	Ditto.	Ditto.	10,000	5,000 to 10,000.
Massacred after the	18th & 19th July,		30,000	Very small.
capture of the city.	and subsequent days.
Killed during the siege	January to	Imperialists and	15,000	9,000 to 10,000.
and fall of Hoo-chow-foo.	September, 1864.	French Contingents.
A rough estimate of the number	August, 1860,	Imperialists, English,	50,000	Much less.
of people killed during all the	to September, 1864.	& French.
actions not recorded, captures
of villages, skirmishes, &c.,
which were innumerable.
To the above may be added			2,500,000
at least 2,000,000 to 3,000,000
people who perished from the
terrible famine occasioned,
during the years 1863 and 4,
by the allied operations, whilst
the Ti-pings were being driven
from their territories, and the
whole country so utterly
desolated as to be covered
with the bodies of the starved
and dying.
Total number of Ti-pings killed and destroyed by the British intervention			2,872,550

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Transcriber's Notes

Click on the map (facing p. 794) to view a high-resolution image.

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Inconsistent transcription and hyphenation of Chinese names have not been changed.

Hyphen removed: blood[-]thirsty (p. 704). gold[-]leaf (p. 769), gun[-]boat(s) (pp. 513, 706, 778), out[-]work (p. 510), pic[-]nic (p. 512), re[-]cature/ed/ing (pp. 582, 583, 590, 820), re[-]manned (p. 516), re[-]taken (p. 584), round[-]about (p. 479), treaty port (p. 445), under[-]weigh (p. 426).