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Battle of Canton

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China

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Canton (1856), part of the Attack on the Canton Forts. United States defeated China.

Belligerents2

United States
China

ON THE MAPUnited States (1860)Qing Dynasty

Conflict graph

PART OFSecond Opium War (Arrow War)

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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