Posted on 02/29/2024 10:33:58 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On February 29, 1856, local Chinese officials in Guangxi beheaded French missionary priest Auguste Chapdelaine — and handed his countrymen a pretext for war. Chapdelaine (English Wikipedia page | French) had gone illegally to the Chinese interior to proselytize Christianity.
The local mandarin Zhang Mingfeng was no doubt disposed to take such an harsh line against this provocation by virtue of the ongoing, Christian-inspired Taiping Rebellion, which had originated right there in Guangxi and was in the process of engulfing all of southern China in one of history’s bloodiest conflicts.....
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