This day, 26 January, in 1841, the British sent troops to forcibly occupy Hong Kong. This followed the British consul Charles Elliot’s leading of a fleet to invade Tianjin and submit “Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston’s Letter to Minister of the Emperor of China” to the Qing government, proposing to cede one or several islands on China’s southeast coast to the United Kingdom.
这一天，即1841年1月26日，英国派兵强行占领香港。 此前，英国领事查尔斯·埃利奥特率领一支舰队入侵天津，并向清政府提交了“外交部长帕默斯顿勋爵给中国皇帝的信”，提议将中国东南海岸的一个或几个岛屿让给英国。
