Captain Roderick Dew

Sir James Hope orders HMS Encounter, under Captain Roderick Dew, to find the rebel leaders and tell them not to attack Ningpo. He was also ordered to give a different message to the imperial authorities in Ningpo and ask them how they expected to resist the Taipings when the assault came.

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Location: Ningpo

Captain Dew Leaves a Message

May 24, 1861

Captain Roderick Dew is going up the river near Ningpo in a smaller gunboat to find the Taipings, but the river eventually becomes too small even for that and they had to go forward in small boats. They reach a village that had been occupied. They stopped when they heard firing from the village and left Hope's message in a cleft bamboo stuck into the ground.

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Location: Ningpo

Captain Dew Takes Message to Chapoo

Jun 11, 1861

Captain Dew took another copy of Admiral Hope's message to Chapoo where it was recieved by a Taiping official

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Location: Ningpo

Governor of Ningpo Asks for Help

May 05, 1862

The former governor of Ningpo asks for help from the Great Powers to retake the city

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Location: Ningpo

Pirates Head for Ningpo

May 07, 1862

Captain Dew allows a flottila of pirates that had been paid to assist the Imperial forces up the river to Ningpo

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Location: Ningpo

Captain Dew Sends a Letter to Ningpo

May 08, 1862

Captain Dew sends a letter to the Taiping forces inside Ningpo stating that so long as they do not fire in the direction of the foreign settlement outside the city, or the warships waiting on the river then they will remain neutral. He knows that this is basically impossible.

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Location: Ningpo

Pirates Off Ningpo

May 09, 1862

The Chinese pirate fleet was laying at anchor in front of the foreign settlement at Ningpo waiting to attack the city

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Location: Ningpo

Attack on Ningpo

May 10, 1862

The europeans bring themselves into the war on the side of the Chinese Empire and then land a Naval Brigade

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Location: Ningpo

Roderick Dew joins HMS Royal Adelaide

Jan 31, 1866

Captain Roderick Dew transfers to HMS Royal Adelaide

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Location: Britain

Captain Dew joins HMS Lord Clyde

Jan 31, 1866

Captain Roderick Dew transfers to HMS Lord Clyde in the Channel Squadron

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Location: Britain

Captain Dew joins HMS Northumberland

Aug 13, 1868

Captain Roderick Dew transfers to HMS Northumberland in the Channel Squadron

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Location: Britain