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The Fight on the Peiho River Sherard Osborn- 25th April 1822 - 6th May 1875 London: Blackwood's, 1859. Right: The formal Garden at English Camp 1869-1871 was planted in 1867 by the second commandant, Capt. William Addis Delacombe. His goal was to create a wee bit of England for his wife and family who accompanied him to the Pacific Northwes. The ship is HMS Boxer, a steam gunboat that called at English Camp during periodic patrols through the Strait of Georgia. Boxer was a veteran of the Second Opium War in China |
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Photographic images of the Taku Forts on the Peiho River following the British Naval operations, circa 1860 |
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John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone - 25 January 1841 - 10 July 1920 Promotion to midshipman came on 12 July 1856 and Fisher joined a 21-gun steam corvette, HMS Highflyer, part of the China Station. He was to spend the next five years in Chinese waters, seeing action in the Second Opium War, 1856-1860. The Highflyer's captain, Captain Shadwell, was an expert on naval astronomy (subsequently being appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861) and he taught Fisher much about navigation with spectacular later results. When Shadwell was replaced as captain following an injury in action, he gave Fisher a pair of studs engraved with his family motto 'Loyal au Mort', which Fisher was to use for the rest of his life. Fisher passed his board for sub-lieutenant (the rank was called mate at the time) on his nineteenth birthday, 25 January 1860. He was transferred three months later to the steam frigate HMS Chesapeake as an acting lieutenant. Shortly afterwards, Fisher had his first brief command: taking the yacht of the China Squadron's admiral - the paddle-gunboat HMS Coromandel - from Hong Kong to Canton (nowadays Guangzhou), a voyage of four days. He was transferred, on 12 June 1860 to the paddle-sloop HMS Furious where he saw sufficient action to add the Taku and Canton clasps to his China service medal. Furious left Hong Kong and the China Station in March 1861 and, after a leisurely voyage home, paid off in Portsmouth on 30 August. Captain Oliver Jones of the Furious was entirely different to Shadwell: Fisher wrote there was a mutiny on board within his first fortnight, that Jones terrorised his crew and disobeyed orders given to him. Nonetheless, by the end of the tour he also was impressed by Fisher. Reference - Wapedia |
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The Treaty of Nanking (or Nanjing) was signed on 29 August 1842 to mark the end of the First Opium War (1839–42) |
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