ABSTRACT
Juan Yuan goes on to say that while foreign policy will probably not stop the English, without allies they will wear themselves out and then China can step in and expel them. Ch'i-shan also memorialized that the American merchants were under the impression that China was in the market for foreign ships for war purposes. Yu-ch'ien was a Mongol Bordered Red Bannerman, of the Po-lo-t'e tribe, whose ancestors for three generations had distinguished themselves in the Manchu military service on the northwest frontier as well as in China proper. In the meantime, Assistant Military General Yang Fang was in charge of military operations at Canton. Yang Fang, a native of Kweichow, was a military career man. Yang Fang memorialized that American trade had been interrupted by the hostilities and that Warren Delano, Jr., American vice consul, had requested the renewal of trade, both for his nationals and for British civilians.
