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...

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...

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...

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...

refer to: 13096 Tigris, an outer main-belt asteroid River Tigris (constellation), also known as Tigris, a constellation The Bocca Tigris, a historical name...

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...

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...

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...

the parties concluded the supplementary Treaty of the Bogue at the Bocca Tigris outside Canton.[citation needed] Nevertheless, the treaties of 1842–43...

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...

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...

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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Chuenpi and Tycocktow guarded the seaward approaches to Canton on the Bocca Tigris (Bogue). This campaign resulted in the British taking possession of Hong...

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...

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...

View looking up the Bocca Tigris to the Second Bar pagoda, where the banquet took place...

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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...

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...

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...

The Pearl River Delta, with Humen marked as Bocca Tigris ("Tiger's Mouth") where the heaviest fighting took place...

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...

against Chinese pirates, defeating them in a series of naval actions in Bocca Tigris. Political instability dominated Portugal during the 19th century after...

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...

Expedition to Canton, which captured the forts of the Canton River from the Bocca Tigris to the city of Canton. The following year, 1848, he returned to England...

Calcutta at the capture of the Bocca Tigris forts in 1856...

1840. The ship was sibsequently inspected by a couple of Mandarins from Bocca Tigris. Kongen af Danmark set sail from Wompoa on 27 December 1749, bound for...

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"....

Hornet at the capture of the Bocca Tigris forts in 1856...