200 🇬🇧 subjects beheaded in Taiwan? The Opium War's forgotten massacre｜200 個英籍人士頭落地 - 台南 (有中文字幕)

Many people are familiar with The Opium Wars that took place between European nations (mainly Britain) and China in the middle of the 19th Century.
But did you know that Taiwan was also caught up in the hostilities?
Watch this video and learn about what happened here in Taiwan during the first Opium War and the chain of events that concluded with almost 200 British subjects losing their heads on a dusty parade ground in Tainan - aka The Nerbudda Incident

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Sources:
Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West, Shih-Shan Henry Tsai, P66-68
British captives in China; an account of the shipwreck on the island of Formosa, of the Brig "Ann" Dan Patridge 1876
Pioneering in Formosa, W. Pickering
Nemesis: The First Iron Warship and Her World, Adrian G. Marshall P147-149
Two years in China, Duncan MacPherson
The Chinese Repository
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3883210&view=1up&seq=136
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3883210&view=1up&seq=272

Chinese language sources:
http://140.113.39.130/cgi-bin/gs32/hugsweb.cgi?o=dnthucdr&s=%22GH000904405%22.id.&#XXXX
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%AE%89%E4%B9%8B%E5%BD%B9
https://kknews.cc/zh-tw/history/peb25l2.html

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