Battle of Chuenpi
| First Battle of Chuenpi | |||||||
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| Part of the First Opium War | |||||||
The Volage and Hyacinth engaging Chinese war junks | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Qing China | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Charles Elliot Henry Smith |
Lin Zexu Guan Tianpei | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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1 frigate 1 sloop |
16 junks 13 fire rafts | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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1 wounded 1 Frigate lightly damaged 1 Sloop lightly damaged |
15 killed 1 fire raft sunk 1 junk blown up 3 junks sunk several other junks damaged | ||||||
The First Battle of Chuenpi (Chinese: 穿鼻之戰) was a relatively minor naval engagement fought between British and Chinese ships at the entrance of the Humen strait (Bogue), Guangdong province, China, on 3 November 1839 near the beginning of the First Opium War. The battle began when the British frigates HMS Hyacinth and HMS Volage opened fire on Chinese ships they perceived as being hostile.
It is named after Chuenpi island (also known as Chuanbi), one of two islands in Humen.