The Closing Events of the Campaign in China: The Operations in the Yang-Tze-Kiang, and Treaty of Nanking [Paperback]

An 1843 first-hand account from the close of the First Opium War by a British naval officer serving in China.Naval officer Granville Gower Loch (181353) adapted his journal for this 1843 publication. Containing observations on the landscape, people, customs and commerce of eastern China, as well as military and diplomatic events, it is an engaging account of the close of the First Opium War and remains valuable to scholars of Chinese history.Naval officer Granville Gower Loch (181353) adapted his journal for this 1843 publication. Containing observations on the landscape, people, customs and commerce of eastern China, as well as military and diplomatic events, it is an engaging account of the close of the First Opium War and remains valuable to scholars of Chinese history.This Loch is Henry Loch's brotherPreface; 1. Straits of Sunda; 2. Departure from Singapore; 3. Dismantling of the Woo-sung forts; 4. Observations; 5. Surveyors' return; 6. Seung-shan, or 'Silver Island'; 7. Reconnaissance of enemy's position; 8. Landing of provisions for garrison; 9. Anchor of Nanking; 10. Chinese official correspondence; 11. Trip to the Dido; 12. Excursion to Nanking; 13. The imperial commissioners; Appendix.