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2 unusual facts about Pescadores Campaign


Sébastien Lespès

In late March 1885, in the Pescadores Campaign, Courbet took personal command of the naval expedition.

He delivered a moving tribute to his predecessor at a memorial service for Courbet at Makung on 13 June attended by the sailors of the Far East Squadron and the marine infantry of the Formosa expeditionary corps that had fought the Pescadores Campaign.


Battle of Zhenhai

On 11 June 1885 Admiral Courbet died of dysentery aboard his flagship Bayard in Makung harbour, where most of the Far East Squadron had been stationed since the end of the Pescadores Campaign (late March 1885).


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