380 troops 2,000 troops8 junks Result British victory | Date 19 August 1840 | |
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4 wounded 50–60 killed100–120 wounded Similar Battle of First Bar, Battle of Chinhai, Broadway expedition, Battle of Kowloon, Battle of Canton | ||
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The Battle of the Barrier was fought between British and Chinese forces at the boundary separating Macau from the Chinese mainland on 19 August 1840 during the First Opium War. Located in modern-day Portas do Cerco, Macau was connected to China by a narrow isthmus about 100 metres (330 ft) wide and 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) long. A wall called the Barrier was built across the isthmus in 1573, and it served as Macau's border.
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At about noon on 19 August 1840, British corvettes, accompanied by the Louisa cutter and Enterprise steamer, having seamen and marines of the Druid with Bengal Volunteers on board, attacked the barrier. The vessels opened fire on a battery about 600 yards (550 m) away, which promptly returned fire. A British officer wrote, "The [Chinese] junks, which were aground in the inner harbour, were utterly useless, for none of their guns could be brought to bear, though several of the thirty-two pound shots of the ships found their way over the bank, much to the consternation of the occupants of the junks." In less than an hour, the batteries were silenced and the British forces landed. They consisted of a brigade of 380 men comprising 110 Royal Marines, 90 seamen from the Druid, and 180 troops from the Bengal Volunteers.