Passaleão incident
| Passaleão incident | |||||||
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View of the Barrier Gate (Portas do Cerco) separating Macau and China (published 1842) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Portugal | China | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita | Xu Guangjin | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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36 men 1 howitzer |
400 men 20 cannons | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 wounded | 15 killed | ||||||
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The Passaleão incident (Chinese: 關閘事件), also known as the Battle of Passaleão (or Pak Shan Lan) or Baishaling incident, was a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849. The Chinese were defeated in the only military confrontation, but the Portuguese called off further punitive measures after a naval explosion killed about 200 sailors.