Ganghwa County (Korean: 강화군) is a county in the city of Incheon, South Korea. The county is composed of Ganghwa Island, and the minor islands around it...

the execution of seven French Catholic missionaries. The encounter over Ganghwa Island lasted nearly six weeks. The result was an eventual French retreat...

governor of Ganghwa also sent what Low described as a "few worthless articles"—three cows, 50 chickens and 1,000 eggs—in an effort to de-escalate things...

as the Ganghwa Island incident. Following this incident, six naval vessels and an imperial Japanese envoy were sent to Ganghwa Island to enforce the wishes...

grounds, the Tongil Park parking lot in the city of Paju and the island of Ganghwa on the west coast are common places for anti-North Korea activists to hold...

USS Monocacy fired their weapons against the Choji Garrison on Ganghwa Island. The incident is thoroughly portrayed in Mr. Sunshine as one of its character...

secured a victory against Joseon forces in Ganghwa Island, forcing Joseon to sign the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1876. Japan encroached upon Korean territory...

unequal treaty was not with the West, but instead with Japan. The Ganghwa Island incident in 1875 saw Japan send the warship Un'yō led by Captain Inoue Yoshika...

confronted Korea militarily in 1871, killing 243 Koreans in Ganghwa island before withdrawing. This incident is called the Shinmiyangyo in Korea. Five years later...

acquired Western military technology, and forced Joseon to sign the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1876, opening three ports to trade and granting the Japanese extraterritoriality...

(1863–1864) Christie Affair (1861–1865) Shinmiyangyo in Korea (1871) Ganghwa Island incident (1875) Tonkin Flotilla (1883) German East Africa (1885) Samoan...

night, Gwanghaegun fled but was captured later. He was confined first on Ganghwa Island and then on Jeju Island, where he died in 1641. He does not have...

Geography of China Geography of North Korea Geography of South Korea Ganghwa Island incident Korea strait "Limits of Oceans and Seas" (PDF) (3rd ed.). International...

forces can also instead be part of the land army, such as the French Troupes de Marine, or an autonomous branch such as the United States Marine Corps. The...

Advisory role from the forming of the MAAG in Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Direct U.S. involvement ended in 1973 with the Paris Peace Accords. The...

Korea. It took place predominantly on and around the Korean island of Ganghwa. The reason for the presence of the American military expeditionary force...

February 26, 1876, after confrontations between the Japanese and Koreans, the Ganghwa Treaty was signed, opening Korea to Japanese trade. In 1880, the King sent...

the Korean Peninsula continued in 1875–1876, starting with the Ganghwa Island incident provoked by the Japanese gunboat Un'yō, leading to the dispatch...

treaties. The new treaties came into force in July 1899. Following the Ganghwa Treaty of 1876, the Korean kingdom of Joseon agreed to the opening of three...

withdrew for the summer, however, Ch'oe U moved the capital from Kaesong to Ganghwa Island. Saritai was hit with a stray arrow and died as he campaigned against...

against Korea, the 1871 United States expedition to Korea, and the Ganghwa Island incident of September 20, 1875. This Cheonja-chongtong is the largest size...

expedition to Korea. 1876: Korean ports are formally opened under the Treaty of Ganghwa with Imperial Japan. 1881: 10 December. Japanese newspaper Chōsen Shinpō...

in a man who had defected to the South and then swam to the North from Ganghwa Island. On 2 January 2022, a defector returned to North Korea by crossing...

apologize for the attack; the objective was to destroy the Korean forts on Ganghwa Island. The U.S.S. Monocacy pounded the forts with 9 inch guns while 546...

Japan after Japanese ships approached Ganghwado and, following the Ganghwa Island incident, threatened to open fire on the Korean capital city. Treaty negotiations...

foundation 1920 March: The Nikolayevsk Incident 1923 September: The Great Kanto earthquake 1928 May: The Jinan Incident 1931 March: The Shōkonshi (招魂祠) of...

unequal treaty signed under duress (gunboat diplomacy) of the Ganghwa Island incident of 1875. The regent Daewongun, who remained opposed to any concessions...

the Korean Peninsula (Yellow Sea) was made in 2005. followed by one near Ganghwa Island in 2009. Populations are denser close to continental shelves and...

"'Masan' successfully docked, construction of Oepori Hamsang Park underway". Ganghwa Today. 27 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2024. Kim, Se-jeong (22 November...

military ruler with de facto control. During his government, Choe Chung-heon was less tolerant toward slaves, and several incidents involving slaves occurred...