<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War" id="mwdQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a>: Dissatisfied with imperial commissioner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Mingchen" id="mwdg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ye Mingchen">Ye Mingchen’s</a> reparations for the alleged slighting of a British-owned vessel and at Consul <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Parkes_(diplomat)" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Harry Parkes (diplomat)">Harry Parkes’s</a> urging, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" id="mweA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">British</a> Rear-Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Seymour_(Royal_Navy_officer,_born_1802)" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Michael Seymour (Royal Navy officer, born 1802)">Michael Seymour</a> launches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Canton_(1856)" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Canton (1856)">an assault on the Barrier Forts outside Canton</a> in the first military engagement of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Second Opium War">Second Opium War</a>.<sup about="#mwt35" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_23#cite_note-5" id="mwfA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfQ">[5]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"><cite about="#mwt32" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFWong1998">Wong, J. Y. (1998). <i id="mwB5w">Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China</i>. <a href="./Cambridge_University_Press" id="mwB50" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>. pp.<span id="mwB54" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>89–91. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB58" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6A" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0521552559" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0521552559"><bdi id="mwB6I">0521552559</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt32" class="Z3988" id="mwB6M" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Deadly+Dreams%3A+Opium%2C+Imperialism%2C+and+the+Arrow+War+%281856%E2%80%931860%29+in+China&amp;rft.pages=89-91&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1998&amp;rft.isbn=0521552559&amp;rft.aulast=Wong&amp;rft.aufirst=J.+Y.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+23"></span></span>