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Battle of Dinghai

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China

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Dinghai (1840), part of the 1st Opium War. United Kingdom defeated China.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
China

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1837)Qing Dynasty

Conflict graph

PART OFFirst Opium 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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