Atalante was hunting down pirate ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Both launches were lit up by searchlights on the French ships and attacked with Hotchkiss fire by Duguay-Trouin.
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The negotiations broke down in mid-August and on 23 August 1884, at the Battle of Fuzhou, Courbet annihilated China's Fujian Fleet, inaugurating the nine-month Sino-French War.
On 23 August 1884, following the breakdown of negotiations to resolve the crisis between France and China, Admiral Amédée Courbet destroyed China's Fujian Fleet at the Battle of Fuzhou, inaugurating the nine-month Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885).