United Kingdom

• British East India Company

Qing ChinaCommanders and leaders Viscount Gough Commissioner Yukien
General Yu Pu-yunStrength 10 ships
2,098 8,000–9,000
157+ gunsCasualties and losses 3 killed
16 wounded several hundred casualties
157 guns captured

The Battle of Chinhai (Chinese: 鎮海之戰) was fought between British and Chinese forces in Chinhai (Zhenhai), Zhejiang province, China, on the 10 October 1841 during the First Opium War. The Chinese force consisted of a garrison of Manchu and Mongol Bannermen. The British capture of this city allowed them to seize Ningbo unopposed on 13 October.

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  Map of the battle
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  British rowboat at Chinhai
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  Close of the engagement

• Hall, William Hutcheon; Bernard, William Dallas (1846). The Nemesis in China (3rd ed.). London: Henry Colburn.
• MacPherson, Duncan (1843). Two Years in China (2nd ed.). London: Saunders and Otley

• The Chinese Repository. Volume 10. Canton. 1841. pp. 680–682.