seshan

Updated: May 3, 2025

At Seshan, however, about fifteen miles below Chin-Keang-Foo, some batteries at the foot of a hill, mounting about twenty guns, opened their fire on the Pluto and Nemesis, as those vessels were surveying in advance. On the following day, the batteries having fired on the Modeste, she very speedily drove out their garrisons, and destroyed them completely.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign