commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Charles Elliot

British Royal Navy admiral (1801-1875)

Charles Elliot is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1839 and 1841: 2 battles and 3 naval actions across 2 present-day countries, most in China (4), Hong Kong S.A.R. (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 146 km apart end to end, 36 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Opium War (5).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

First Opium War 5

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
4 September 1839	Battle of Kowloon	Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong S.A.R.		Stalemate
3 November 1839	Battle of Chuenpee	China	81 km NW	British victory
7 January 1841	Second Battle of Chuenpee	People's Republic of China	7 km SE	British victory; Signing of the Convention of Chuenpi
23 February 1841	Battle of the Bogue	China	6 km NW	British victory
18 March 1841	Battle of Canton	Guangzhou, China	52 km NW	British victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, "courtesy of the office of the Prime Minister, Trinidad.", Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.