On 8th November some' Imperialists came on to the Race Course and fired at the American guard. Sailors were landed 1 an American warship in port and a threatened attack in the rear from the rebels caused the Imperialists to retire.
13th December the French bombarded the East gate of the city where a battery was being erected in spite of their protests. A landing party demolished the earth works and spiked the guns. close to the city sometimes making ho Imperialists frequently sprung mines very big breaches in this way. 'The rebels however usually repaired the walls without much difficulty. On one occasion they were too quick for their foes and captured over 300 bugs of powder before the mine had to to expl 'On 2ist June during an ement between the' two parties some. Imperialists fired on the English Guard which had been placed on the Race Course. The morines fired back and then retired. Admiral Stirling who was in Shanghai at the time demanded and obtained full satisfaction for this outrage.
EVACUATION OF THE CITY BY THE' REBELS
We must now pass on to February 1855. In the intervening period the rebels had teen having, 9 pretty warm tim i attacked by beth French and Imperialists. On 17th February, during the night they evacuated the city, and Cin A-ling, the General, fled towards Sicawei with a few followers. Most of the Latter were captured and. beheaded by
was almost as great a surprise to the foreign the Imperialism. The news of the evacuation community as" the news of the occupsition had been. During the night of the 17th a big fire was observed to be raging eastward over the city, and when next morning dawned a vague Tumour came in that the Tmperialists were in the city. The latter when they did get in behaved in a most brutal manner, butchering right and loft. "Immense mounds of heads and hendloss bodies were everywhere about the city and the suburbs, and the unfortunate people who were found' alive were ruthlessly pillaged. One unlucky man had been compelled: to pay three hundred thousand nels to the insurgents and the Imperialists now made him pay two hundred thousand more for having complied with these demands." The rebels before they left the city filled a. number of houses with combustibles and set them alight; it is estimated that the fire thus created destroyed half the city. The Imperialists marched into the city by a breach they bad blown in the walls sons time before. Numbers of the rebels found refuge in the British settlement until they could get away to a safer place.
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