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Sunday, 9 November 2014

French fleet bombarded Chinese defence works at Foochow according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 26 August 1884

An item dated Hong Kong 26th reported that the French fleet bombarded the Chinese fortress and other defence works at Foochow destroying the arsenal and sinking 7 Chinese gunboats.(1)

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1. The Sino-French War between August 1884 and April 1885.