2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Broadside, 11”x13-1/2”, August 6, 1855, “Printed, and Published, by Luiz D’Azevedo, Queen’s Road West, Victoria, 1855”, titled “THE FRIEND OF CHINA EXTRA.”,We have been favoured with the following particulars of the desperate service on which the [H.M.S.S.] Rattler was engaged...towards Kulan...[she encountered] between thirty and forty large Junks, some of which immediately commenced firing towards the Steamer....” Details of the engagment follow, with the results being “Not less than eight hundred Chinese will have been killed by gun shot or sword wounds, or made to lose their lives by drowning. This, however, is only a third, though the cream, of the total number of Junks first seen, the rest escaping into a large Lagoon....” Followed by alisting of those killed and wounded in both the British and American forces. Repairs, else about VG.
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