Humen (redirect from Bocca Tigris)
The Humen, also known as the Bocca Tigris or the Bogue, is a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta that separates Shiziyang in the north and Lingdingyang...
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city gates. In 1809, the famous naval battle of the Tiger's Mouth (or Bocca Tigris) took place between a Portuguese flotilla of six ships and a Chinese...
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Navy vessels to bombard Chinese forts on the Pearl River straight, the Bocca Tigris, in a show of force. This command was followed through, but war was avoided...
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the Pearl River just north of Guangzhou. The Pearl River's estuary, Bocca Tigris, is regularly dredged so as to keep it open for ocean vessels. The mouth...
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refer to: 13096 Tigris, an outer main-belt asteroid River Tigris (constellation), also known as Tigris, a constellation The Bocca Tigris, a historical name...
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the Dong River and the Pearl River with parts of the Bei River to the Bocca Tigris which separate Lingdingyang the mid channel of the Pearl River Estuary...
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Battle of Chuenpi on 7 January 1841 against the Chinese fleet at the Bocca Tigris forts. In the Battle of First Bar (27 February), Nemesis sank Cambridge...
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Bocca Tigris, two Chinese officials (tidewaiters), would board vessels going up to Canton, and would stay with the vessel until she passed the Bocca Tigris...
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the parties concluded the supplementary Treaty of the Bogue at the Bocca Tigris outside Canton.[citation needed] Nevertheless, the treaties of 1842–43...
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and Tianjin. At the time Chao Ho was stationed at the naval fort in Bocca Tigris to guard the city of Guangzhou and the entrance to the Pearl River. On...
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skirmish of cannon fire as the British warships breached defences at the Bocca Tigris. After a prolonged stalemate, Lord Napier, sapped by typhus, was forced...
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View looking up the Bocca Tigris to the Second Bar pagoda, where the banquet took place...
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sailors and four marines would be killed in action at the capture of Bocca Tigris on 7 January 1841 and the subsequent campaign along the Pearl River to...
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served during the First Opium War. He was present at the operations at Bocca Tigris, seeing action at the Battle of the Bogue and the Battle of Canton. For...
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Canton which assaulted and took, by a coup de main, the forts of the Bocca Tigris resulting in the spiking of 879 guns.: 501 The 1850s saw the rapid growth...
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passage that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea Bona Vista Bocca Tigris, or Bogue Bombay Bouru Burah Bazaar Busher (Bushire) Cagayan Sulu Calcutta...
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Cities portal Hong Kong portal Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Bocca Tigris Metropolitan regions of China Yangtze River Delta Yellow River Delta...
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Chuenpi and Tycocktow guarded the seaward approaches to Canton on the Bocca Tigris (Bogue). This campaign resulted in the British taking possession of Hong...
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against Chinese pirates, defeating them in a series of naval actions in Bocca Tigris. Political instability dominated Portugal during the 19th century after...
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portal Pearl River Delta Pearl River Delta Economic Zone Pearl River Bocca Tigris Metropolitan regions of China Yangtze River Delta Yellow River Delta...
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11:30 am on 8 January, British ships led by the Blenheim sailed up the Bocca Tigris. As they approached Anunghoy Island (north of Chuenpi), a boat rowed...
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battles in the First Opium War were fought here and on the waters of the Bocca Tigris. Humen is a thriving city crowded with consumer goods factories. These...
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be trifled with by the Chinese. The mandarin in charge of the fort at Bocca Tigris came aboard but was intimidated by the ship's heavy guns and instead...
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The Pearl River Delta, with Humen marked as Bocca Tigris ("Tiger's Mouth") where the heaviest fighting took place...
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Calcutta at the capture of the Bocca Tigris forts in 1856...
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Zhongshan Island as Pinhal, noting "this is the only place between the Bocca Tigris and Macao where a grove of pine trees has flourished for centuries"....
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Hornet at the capture of the Bocca Tigris forts in 1856...
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the destroyers Hayate and Oite were entering the Pearl River Delta at Bocca Tigris when they encountered the elderly protected cruiser Chao Ho and the sloop...
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Sulphur, Modeste, and the steamers Madagascar and Nemesis sailed past the Bocca Tigris along the Pearl River. Lieutenant John Elliot Bingham of the Modeste...
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The frigate Henriette passing Bocca Tigris en route to Canton...
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