1857-12-18 | Lancashire Infantry Museum

This Day In History: 1857-12-18

2nd Opium War. 429 troops of the 59th Regiment (later 2nd East Lancashires) embark at Hong Kong on the appropriately-named ‘Lancashire Witch’ for passage up the Pearl River to Canton (now Guangzhou).

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