The death of Sir Reginald Custance indeed carries the mind back, for that veteran Admiral was a midship-/man of HM.S. Euryalus, the flagship of Sir James Hope's squadron which, fu the time of the Teiping threat to Shanghai, was engaged in co-
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She was brought Canton run, operation with the French and Chinese Government forces in clearing the neighbourhood of this city. The famous thirty-mile radius was prescribed and in March, 1862, Admiral Hope received Her Majesty's direct commands to defend Shanghai, protect other treaty ports and gen-ferally assist British commerce the winter of 1861-62 the rebels gave warning of their intention to take Shanghai, Anglo-French collaboration "established the defence of Shanghai and operations were undertaken to clear the area, starting with the capture of Ningpo in June, 1862. The severity of the fighting can be gauged from the fact that on May 17, 1862, in reporting with deep. regret and admiration the death of his French colleague, "Admiral Protet, Admiral Hope was actually confined to his cabin by wounds which he himself had received. Kahding at the capture of which Midshipman Reginald Custance, aged 15, was Present is known better to present-day Shanghailanders as Ki Gordon's "Ever Victorious Arm; completed the task which Admiral Hope and his French allies so admirably began.
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