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Battle of Shanghai (1861) | |||||||||
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Part of Taiping Rebellion (Eastern Expedition) | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Li Xiucheng Tan Shaoguang Li Rongfa Ji Qingyuan (吉慶元) Chen Kunshu Chen Bingwen (陳炳文) Gao Yongkuan (郜永寬) | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
40,000 ![]() 20,000 Huai Army 3,000 Ever Victorious Army ![]() ![]() | 120,000 | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
? deaths | ? deaths |
The Battle of Shanghai (太平軍二攻上海) was a major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion that occurred from June 1861 to July 1862. British and French troops used modern artillery on a large scale for the first time in China.[citation needed] Cannon fire inflicted heavy casualties on the Taiping forces, whose commander Li Xiucheng was wounded in the left leg by a shot fired from a cannon.