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By the start of 1840 the military and political manoeuvres were gathering pace. The British had left the factories, the river, and even Macao. They were living on ships off Hong Kong, awaiting troops from India and orders from London. Elliot was busy keeping up morale and dealing with Chinese attempts to send fire-ships against his merchantmen.
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Notes
Peter Ward Fay, The Opium War 1840–1842 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975) p.239.
Ibid., p.238.
Lord Jocelyn, Six Months with the Chinese Expedition (London: John Murray, 1841), pp.52–5.
Ibid., p.61n.
The commanders had had warnings enough, but believed there was no alternative. A later Court of Inquiry found it had all just been an awful muddle. Cf. Surgeon McPherson, Two Years in China, Narrative of the China Expedition 1840–1842 (London, 1842).
John Ouchterlony, The Chinese War (London, Saunders and Otley, 1844), p.85.
Rait, Sir Robert S., The Life and Campaigns ofHugh, First Viscount Gough, Field-Marshal, 2 vols (London: A. Constable, 1903), vol.1, pp.230–1.
Charles C.F. Greville, The Greville Memoirs, 8 vols (London: Longmans Green, 1875), vol.4, p.364 et seq.
Victoria, Letters of Queen Victoria, ed. Arthur C. Benson and Viscount Esher vol.I, 1837–43 (London: J. Murray, 1908), p.260.
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Gelber, H.G. (2004). Fighting and Talking: Elliot 1840–41. In: Opium, Soldiers and Evangelicals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000704_6
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