Battle of Shanghai (1861)
The Battle of Shanghai (太平軍二攻上海) was a major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion that occurred from June 1861 to July 1862. British and French troops used modern artillery on a large scale for the first time in China. Cannon fire inflicted heavy casualties on the Taiping forces, whose commander Li Xiucheng was wounded in the left leg by a shot fired from a cannon.
| Battle of Shanghai (1861) | |||||||||
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| Part of Taiping Rebellion (Eastern Expedition) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Qing dynasty French Empire United Kingdom United States | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | ||||||||
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Li Hongzhang Cheng Xueqi Huang Yisheng (黃翼昇) Pan Dingxin (潘鼎新) Guo Songlin (郭松林) Liu Mingchuan Auguste Léopold Protet † James Hope Frederick Townsend Ward Edward Forrester |
Li Xiucheng Tan Shaoguang Li Rongfa Ji Qingyuan (吉慶元) Chen Kunshu Chen Bingwen (陳炳文) Gao Yongkuan (郜永寬) | ||||||||
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40,000 Green Standard Army 20,000 Huai Army 3,000 Ever Victorious Army 4,000 3,000 | 120,000 | ||||||||
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| ? deaths | ? deaths | ||||||||
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