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Also called: Sengge Rinchen, Seng-ko-lin-ch’in
Qing general of Mongol Khorchin birth who repulsed the British fleet at the Dagu forts in 1859, was beaten by the Anglo-French at Baliqiao the next year, and fell fighting the Nian rebels in Shandong
In June 1859 a British squadron escorting the British and French envoys on their way to ratify the Treaty of Tianjin tried to force the mouth of the Hai River and was badly beaten by Senggelinqin’s rebuilt Dagu forts.
From the single gate at Canton to the burning of the Old Summer Palace — a century in which a trade in tea, silver and opium became the First and Second Opium Wars, forcing China open and costing it territory