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Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, John from Auckland, Cliff from Palmerston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 96! Join Mark and Joey as they dive deep into the June Real Estate Market Update. They discuss current market trends, average prices, and transaction volumes across different property types. Discover insights about condos, detached homes, townhouses, and semis—they cover it all! Besides market updates, enjoy their fun anecdotes about personal life milestones, fine dining experiences, and even Coldplay concert reviews.This episode also touches upon purpose-built rentals and potential real estate opportunities. Whether you're a buyer, seller, or just curious about the market, this is the episode for you!Restaurant Name: Renaissance Detroit Style PizzaWebsite: https://www.renaissancepizza.ca/Address: 809 Dundas St W. Palmerston & ‍ Dundas, TorontoRestaurant Name: Gloria @ The Great HallWebsite: https://www.instagram.com/gloriagreathall/?hl=enAddress: 087 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1H3Here are all the Love Island watch parties happening in Toronto: https://www.blogto.com/radar/2025/07/massive-love-island-watch-party-toronto/CHAPTERS (00:00) Introduction and Greetings(00:23) Real Estate Market Update(02:15) Joey's Anniversary Celebration(07:13) Detroit Style Pizza Discussion(10:06) Coldplay Concert Experience(17:21) Love Island Finale(22:15) June Real Estate Numbers(24:26) Q2 Sales Overview(24:53) Inventory and Listings Analysis(25:35) Market Opportunities for Buyers(26:44) Average Prices and Trends(27:39) Days on Market and Inventory Insights(29:26) Toronto Sales Transactions Breakdown(30:57) Condos Market Trends(34:02) Purpose-Built Rentals and Future Outlook(45:29) Final Thoughts and Market SummaryFEEDSPOT TOP CANADIAN REALTOR PODCASTShttps://podcast.feedspot.com/canadian_realtor_podcasts/FEEDSPOT TOP TORONTO PODCASTShttps://podcast.feedspot.com/toronto_podcasts/WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

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The Tragically Hip Top Forty Countdown: Song Seventeen - Gillian from Palmerston Conversation HighlightsJillian shares personal stories that trace her life through Hip albums and live shows—from small-town house parties to big amphitheatre gigs, from heartbreaks to healing. She unpacks how certain songs surfaced at pivotal moments, guiding her through grief, reconciliation, motherhood, and joy. Her insights are full of warmth, humour, and a genuine love for what this band means to her and so many others.About Our GuestGillian's journey with The Hip began in rebellion against her twin brother's music taste, blossomed through hard-won independence, and became the emotional backbone of her adult life. From dancing onstage with a banana shaker to naming her Jeep Cordelia, she lives and breathes Hip fandom. She's a primary teacher, a deep thinker, and a proud member of what she beautifully calls the Church of Gord.Next WeekWe're staying in classic territory with a big one. Tune in to hear who joins us for song #16 as we edge closer to the top ten. It's about to get real.Pull Quote"I credit my love of The Hip with helping me reconcile with my brother. One song—‘Are We Family?'—played at just the right time. I don't know if that's the universe, but I call it the Church of Gord."Get Involved

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Talkback Time with Ric & Chappy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In which we discuss a woman who won a lawsuit after being called out as Darth Vader at work as well as the two most famous political British cats, Palmerston and Larry, respectively. Send us a textFollow Two Guys Two Things on other social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twoguystwothingsTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/2Guys2Things.comIf you enjoyed the episode (or didn't) we would love it if you left us a review. Who knows, we may even share the review on the show.We'd love to hear from you! Contact us at 2guys2things@gmail.comThanks for listening!

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Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston & Dean from Dunedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Scott from Wellington, Cliff from Palmerston, Dean from Dunedin & John from Auckland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on then sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston, John from Auckland, Conrad from Palmerston North Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ryan welcomes back Hanover Barons GM Pete Irwin to celebrate back-to-back PJHL Pollock Division Titles for Hanover, as the Barons prep to continue a run towards hopefully a Schmalz Cup PJHL title.Ryan and Clarkey then feature the 2025 Elementary Curling Championships being hosted in Palmerston, with over 270 curlers on 64 teams descending on the town for a great event.Also, the Leafs finally get one over on the Panthers and hold onto 1st place in the Atlantic, torpedo bats in MLB, the Jays are OK and the Athletics are doing media in a shed.To end, Clarkey promotes a great charity hockey game supporting the Huron Food Bank that he's playing in for his Couch Potato, and Ryan highlights nice guy Ovi.We are looking for new sponsors! Interested? Email instigatingcd@gmail.com or Clarkey66@gmail.com!Subscribe on Youtube and all the best podcast apps!Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Wix_x4--bclMBXhtRV3dAApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/instigating-with-clarkey-and-drury/id1590566419Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZlDWiSNbMs1O0mKW3zoHr

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Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Joey from Auckland, Cliff from Palmerston, Dean from Dunedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Talkback Time with Smithy 0800 150 811. We've thrown the phonelines open for you to have your say on the sporting landscape. Let Ian know what's on your mind today featuring, Cliff from Palmerston, Finn from Whakatane, Dean from Dunedin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"They were everywhere, every corner you looked in." That said by a woman on a suburban street under siege from a stray cat colony who is calling for change so residents can reclaim their properties. Larissa Rzoksa wants the Animal Welfare act amended so any dog or cat - that is not registered for breeding or has a medical exemption - is desexed. She lives on Cecil Place in Palmerston North, where dozens of felines descend every breeding season. Jimmy Ellingham has the story.

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Call Sport Nation anytime on 0800 150 811 to have your say on the day's top sporting topics! Featuring Cliff from Palmerston, Paul from Northland and John from Auckland, Radar from Auckland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we're joined by the legendary owner and Exec Chef of the most popular restaurant in Scotland in The Palmerston, the wonderful Lloyd Morse, to hear how he's created such a successful venture in Edinburgh and uncover some of his war stories from his career so far. We sat down to a delicious and incredibly boozy supper a couple of weeks ago and managed to prize out his greatest tales from; his time working alongside his mentor Skye Gyngell when they opened Spring together, why he never enjoyed his time at The River Cafe, how he structures a menu and his love for nose to tail cooking, the importance of working on a farm, the night he rejected Christop Waltz, Noel Gallagher's awful jokes, his younger days working at a terrifying Michelin starred restaurant in Australia, his hatred for certain items which should never be on a menu, the secrets to managing a team, why he never wanted to open a restaurant in London, the importance of properly training younger chefs, his love for shitty Hawaiian pizzas, why pissy livers are the greatest thing to eat in the world and much much more....--------Please leave us a great rating and a comment and share it with your friends - it really helps us grow as a show. If you're in the industry and are looking for the greatest POS system in the world than look no further as Blinq are tearing up the rulebook—no long-term contracts, no hidden fees, and no per-device charges. Just £49 a month for unlimited devices and 24/7 UK-based support that's always there, in person when you need it.Built for hospitality, by hospitality, blinq is the fastest, easiest POS system on the market—so intuitive, anyone can use it. And while others take weeks to get you up and running, with blinq, you're live in just 2 hours.Join the hospitality revolution today & use the code GOTOBLINQ to get your first month free - https://blinqme.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi BlurtstarsWe've got a jam-packed show today, starting with “Blurt Around The World”:* Aussie mortgage holders finally get a reprieve.* Palmerston Reports for Duty in Bermuda.* Report showing young Australians know less about democracy now.* Florida highway turns into a beer-soaked scene.In “Green There, Done That”, the Kegsta will chat 5 Reasons Why Australia Needs to Break Up with Gas, followed by Wencee's discussion on using coffee making concrete stronger.Finally, in “Fun facts” Wencee will tell us 20 facts about the mobile phone. And the Kegsta will tell us about the earth.So let's get on with the show!Tune in and find out more on https://www.youtube.com/@thenewblurt7773, with Wencee and the Kegsta.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://thenewblurt.substack.com or contact us at blurtstar[at]gmail.com.*** And if you're in Melbourne on 22 or 23 March 2025, do yourself a favour and go see the Kegsta perform in the new Flemington Theatre Company show called Murder Before Me. Buy tickets here →Flemington Theatre Company | Murder Before MeBlurt Around The WorldIf you own a home, your mortgage repayments just got a little cheaper. It's been about four years since we last had a rate cut. Enjoy while we can →ABC News | How banks are responding to Reserve Bank decision to cut interest ratesUK Foreign Office rescue cat, Palmerston, has come out of retirement and lands new job in Bermuda →NPR News | U.K.'s foreign office cat Palmerston shows up for duty in BermudaDo young Australians care about democracy? Do they know who the current prime minister is? Find out in the latest study that shows their civics and citizenship knowledge has decreased over the last 20 years →ABC News | Australian students record worst ever civics result with 72 per cent not understanding the basics of democracyDon't cry over spilt beer. A truck in Florida overturns and loses nearly 20 tonnes of shit beer. It's still funny →UPI | Truck overturns on Florida highway, spills 44,000 pounds of beerGreen There, Done ThatThe science shows that planet Earth is heating up. We know that we need to move away from fossil fuels and embrace renewable energy for the future. The Kegsta gives us 5 reasons why we need to move away from gas.Climate Council 5 reasons why Australia needs to break up with gasCoffee. It tastes good and a very popular drink in Australia. RMIT university researchers in Melbourne have discovered that mixing spent coffee grounds into concrete can increase the strength of concrete. Read here for other reasons this is a good discovery →Science Alert | Scientists Discover An Amazing Practical Use For Leftover Coffee GroundsFun factsHow many of these fun facts do you know about Earth? Read on to test your knowledge →US Geological Survey | Age of the EarthMobile phones are everywhere. Almost everyone has one, even babies. Here are some fun facts about the mobile phone →Oh My Facts | 30 facts about mobile phonesFollow us on our socials:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@thenewblurt7773Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/blurtstar/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/blurtstar/Threads - https://www.threads.net/@blurtstar This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thenewblurt.substack.com

On this week's episode of Reals & Feels: Touchy Subject: What do people get wrong about you upon meeting you? In Jih News: --Louisiana Department of Health says it will no longer promote mass vaccination --A humpback whale briefly swallows a kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera --Last 4 escaped monkeys are captured in South Carolina after months on the loose --U.K.'s foreign office cat Palmerston shows up for duty in Bermuda --NBA star Anthony Edwards allegedly told Ayesha Howard to get an abortion after she revealed pregnancy --The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to metaphorical midnight. What does it mean?

rWotD Episode 2845: Waihemo / Shag River Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 16 February 2025 is Waihemo / Shag River.The Waihemo / Shag River is located in Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. It rises in the Kakanui Range, flowing southeast for 75 km (47 mi), or 50 kilometres (31 mi) before reaching the Pacific Ocean on the south side of Shag Point / Matakaea, 7.5 km (4.7 mi) east of Palmerston. The Dunback Branch railway that operated from the 1880s to 1989 largely followed the route of the river from its junction with the Main South Line near Shag Point township to its terminus in Dunback.The small- to medium-sized river has been adversely affected over the past decades by farming practices in the area. Much of its length is overgrown with willows, and during the summer its flow can become significantly reduced.In 1985, the name of the river was gazetted by Land Information New Zealand as Shag River (Waihemo). In August 2021, the name was officially amended to Waihemo / Shag River.Waihemo means a 'river that has gone away' or 'dwindled'. Early whalers named the river after the common seabird.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:33 UTC on Sunday, 16 February 2025.For the full current version of the article, see Waihemo / Shag River on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm long-form Danielle.

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Have a listen as Ian tells us about growing up and going to the Cowshed at Palmerston, getting the chance to sign for Dunfermline, going to Rangers, eventually resigning for Dunfermline, and his career in management. Also hear what Dunfermline means to Ian

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Marokopa fugutive Tom Phillips and his three children have apparently managed to evade police yet again after a "credible" sighting by hunters who passed them in bush, filming the family on their phone. The close encounter happened last Thursday at about 7pm. Palmerston man John McOviney said his 16 year old grandson was one of the hunters who saw Phillips near Coutts road north of Awamarino in Waikato. Australian David Craig was a former Detective Superintendent and federal agent, and spoke to Lisa Owen.

Each week we talk with Chris Walsh, the editor of the NT Independent about the top stories that are making news in the Territory on a long form podcast we call Weekends With Walshy. Territory Story News Bites is a short form weekly podcast which gives you a snap shot of some of the stories we're going to be talking about on the weekend podcast. It's meant to give you a quick insight as to what's happening in the Territory each week and some of the stories that we'll discuss in more detail during Weekends With Walshy. On this episode of News Bites we speak with Chris Walsh from the NT Independent about what he's working on at the time of recording. Some of the stories making headlines this week include: 1. Cops called on NT Independent to ban it from anti-corruption conference https://ntindependent.com.au/cops-called-on-nt-independent-to-ban-it-from-anti-corruption-conference/ 2. 2024 NT election kicks off in Palmerston, as independent saves the day for CLPhttps://ntindependent.com.au/2024-nt-election-kicks-off-in-palmerston-as-independent-saves-the-day-for-clp/  3. ‘Our community cannot sleep': MLA calls for action amid ongoing low-level riots in Palmerstonhttps://ntindependent.com.au/our-community-cannot-sleep-mla-calls-for-action-after-ongoing-low-level-riots-in-palmerston/  4. Lawler Government says it will now fund ‘bare minimum' Domestic Violence programs – if electedhttps://ntindependent.com.au/lawler-government-says-it-will-now-fund-bare-minimum-domestic-violence-programs-if-elected/ 5. New school funding tied to increased attendance rates and number of students passing Year 12https://ntindependent.com.au/new-school-funding-tied-to-increased-attendance-rates-and-number-of-students-passing-year-12/  6. Lawler Government signs deal with St John Ambulancehttps://ntindependent.com.au/lawler-government-signs-deal-with-st-john-ambulance/  7. Panel advises on euthanasia, excludes mentally ill and dementia patientshttps://ntindependent.com.au/panel-makes-recommendations-on-euthanasia-excludes-mentally-ill-and-dementia-patients/ 8. New microbrewery planned for ‘The Quarter' at Casuarina Squarehttps://ntindependent.com.au/new-microbrewery-planned-for-the-quarter-at-casuarina-square/  9. Job of the week - https://www.seek.com.au/job/77734862?savedSearchID=3a06b5cc-a1de-11e8-93a9-0bd920cd47b0&tracking=JMC-SavedSearch-anz-1 Have a listen to the details of some of the big stories Chris and Co are preparing to put online this week and some of the stories we'll be discussing on Weekends With Walshy. The Territory Story podcast thanks to Oppidanus Digital Marketing your local digital marketing experts. For more information about your digital marketing needs go to www.oppidanus.com.au.

Carolyn Barclay and David Moore run Kingswood & Palmerston. They work with B2B marketers whom they push to do interesting work. We discuss creativity in B2B advertising as well as Carolyn and David's business. You might know David from his Twitter and LinkedIn sharing of advertising made by advertising agencies to promote advertising agencies. Carolyn Barclay: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolyn-barclay-622b9712/ David Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmooreecd/ ** Make sure you check out the DELUGE of content I've been sharing on Instagram, including ebook links: http://www.instagram.com/markpollard

Dundee United are reeling from a second cup exit in the space of eight days, having been unable to crack Stone. Can the Tangerines respond with a win at Cappielow? And what German legend received a name-check when analysing the rise of Kai Fotheringham in the aftermath of his Palmerston double? Meanwhile, Dundee succumbed to defeat against Hibernian – but positivity abounds as it is suggested we are watching the best Dee outfit in 20 YEARS. Owen Beck scored his first goal for the Dens Park outfit, prompting more comparisons with a young Andy Robertson. With George Cran absent, Alan Temple and Graeme Finnan join host Tam Duthie to talk football in the City of Discovery.

The Palmy Party was an event like no other – was this just a dying convulsion of Bruce's alcohol pickled brain, or was there some cold hard reasoning behind the bizarre and hugely costly fling, set on with no more than 24 hours notice, in the sleepy New Zealand city of Palmerston North?Schools and businesses closed at the snap of a fat finger, 8000 brethren willingly or otherwise converged on this obscure spot by plane coach car or prison van, were fed on the best rib-eye steak, drowned their pain with top shelf spirits, while serenaded by country and western ballads, all in the Holy Precincts of the Meeting Hall and all for what………?Journalist and author Craig Hoyle and Olive-leaf network founder Lindy Jacomb take us deep into the world of New Zealand PBCC politics, from the 1860s forwards to today, and reveal a rebellious and independent streak that has ever been a thorn in the side of the so called “Great Men” of the Plymouth or Exclusive Brethren. With over 8000 members and many highly successful businesses, the PB Kiwis have considerable soft power within the “ecosystem” – yet they have never produced an universal leader. Is the harsh and increasingly eccentric reign of brash Australian Bruce D Hales going to be the last straw for the beautiful islands of Aotearoa? Are they preparing to throw off the chains of Hales and go their own sweet way? Was the Palmy Party a desperate, last ditch attempt to woo them back into Bruce's sweaty embrace? Listen up, dear friends, and decide for yourself! Links to Craig Hoyle's articles- https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/politics/350077416/exclusive-brethren-lessons-suggest-destiny-should-beware-meddling-politics https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/nz-news/350078215/private-jets-prison-vans-and-palmy-inside-world-last-minute-brethren-national?fbclid=IwAR08U8Y8dtYtcVFuVtxZWP54P2LRwbB8DuTbtxRs3OxVk1zmpjRIZ3zJjsI Current GOFUNDME needs: Barrington Legal fees-https://gofund.me/2391b265 Julie Fletcher's family-https://gofund.me/a9da51dd Heidi McCamley trial-https://gofund.me/5582d1f3 PayPal link for USA- https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8Tz4n35OJ8 Olive Leaf Network- https://oliveleaf.network/ Thinking of Leaving Pamphlet and resources - https://oliveleaf.network/resources/ Preston Down Trust Decision-http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/media/591398/preston_down_trust_full_decision.pdf Aberdeen incident- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1riImgAqwaqGwjYq6vRQIr4_jscJA0eQN/view?usp=sharing If we walk in the light letters-https://drive.google.com/file/d/14WlgJladl1r95YGxW0FbZ0prYfjlg7FU/view?usp=sharing #plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch #pbcc #abuse #church #cult #religion #trauma #religioustrauma #sexualabuse #mindcontrol #brainwashing #conversation #exmembers #exposingtruth #whistleblower #getalifepodcast #getalife #podcast #exclusivebrethren #brucehales #johnhales #shutup #withdrawnfrom #worldly #excommunicate #assemblydeath #christiansect #christiancult #canadiancult #canadiansect #BruceHales #BDH #BruceDHales #UniversalBusinessTeam #UBT #RRT #RapidReliefTeam #Aberdeen #OneSchoolGlobal #bully #bullying

Leyla Kazim examines the growing influence apps, maps and lists are having on restaurant recommendations, food writing and the way we eat. Leyla sits down for lunch with Michael O'Shea from the restaurant recommendation app Jacapo, ‘the social network for people who love food,' to hear why he thinks apps like his have the potential to reshape the way people find new places to eat. She meets Jonathan Nunn from online magazine Vittles in Green Lanes, North London, where they discuss the rapid trajectory of lists and map-based recommendations, and what these developments mean for the changing landscape of food media in the UK. We get the thoughts of three restaurant critics on the subject: The Telegraph's William Sitwell, The Evening Standard's Jimi Famurewa and Elite Traveler magazine's Andy Hayler. In Glasgow producer Robbie Armstrong meets Julie Lin at her restaurant Ga Ga, where she talks about the way apps and tech now give restaurateurs instant feedback, and why she welcomes the social media reviewer as much as the classic critic. In Edinburgh, Robbie sits down for lunch with The Times Scotland Restaurant critic Chitra Ramaswamy to hear why she welcomes the democratisation of food reviewing. She outlines why critics continue to play a crucial role, and explains the ethics behind her approach to criticism. Social media influencers mvlondonreviews discuss the blurred lines that can emerge between restaurants and social media reviewers, and the reasons they set clear boundaries before a review. Finally, The Palmerston's James Snowdon recounts the game-changing power a restaurant critic still holds. Presented by Leyla Kazim. Produced by Robbie Armstrong.

Last time we spoke Emperor Xianfeng died at the ripe age of 30 having spent a life smoking opium with his harem. Now the Qing dynasty was in the hands of his 5 year old son, but in reality henceforth until its collapse the Qing dynasty would actually to be controlled by the infamous Empress Dowager Cixi. Hong Rengan received a military defeat at Tongcheng and it seems he would never psychologically recover from it. Li Xiucheng went on the offensive and performed a grand eastern campaign taking multiple provinces. Zeng Guofan needed a new army created and chose his student Li Hongzhang to command it. The Anhui army was formed and it looked like the Qing side was going to win this civil war after all. The only thing that might turn the tide back for the Taiping was that ever sought after foreign support.   #33 This episode is The Taiping Rebellion part 10: The Ever Victorious Army   Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Meanwhile back in Nanjing, Hong Rengan's life was becoming more and more miserable. He lost at Anqing and his rivals used his absence to take away his authority in the capital. His continued efforts at gaining western support was going nowhere, in fact it was earning him embarrassment. The foreign relations to the Taiping had become poisoned due a large part to the eastern campaign led by Li Xiucheng. Many of the foreign missionaries stopped visiting Nanjing and soon that direct line of communication that Hong Rengan cherished had slipped away. Shanghai was bracing itself for what it believed was a Taiping offensive against the city and Hong Rengan could do little to nothing to stop Li Xiucheng. As for Zeng Guofan, he knew Shanghai was extremely wealthy and must be protected from the Taiping, but Nanjing was simply more important and he could not launch two enormous campaigns simultaneously against both. Zeng Guofan elected to focus on Nanjing and perhaps once Li Hongzhang had built up his Anhui army he could deal with Shanghai.    For Shanghai, it looked certain the Taiping would soon attack, and the Qing had no assurances from the foreigners that they would help defend the city. They had no one to turn to, then our old friend the filibuster wannabe Frederick Townsend Ward. Despite Britain's attempts to stop the mercenary leader, he was still going strong with his HQ at Songjiang. He only had 68 foreign mercenaries left because of the constant harassment from the Taiping and British, but he did have some Napoleon field guns and a promise form his Qing benefactors that if he took Qingpu he would be rewarded handsomely. Way back when we talked about how Ward's ragtag group failed to take Qingpu from the Taiping and they attempted 4 more times with disastrous results. They just kept using the same strategy over and over, blast the gates with artillery, storm the walls and hope the Qing military followed through. Ward's defeats were brutal and he lost a third of his force for his efforts. The foreign community of SHanghai had zero sympathy for the filibuster, he was just a source of embarrassment. But then the American civil war broke out and a rumor emerged about a group of Californians purchasing the vessel, Neva and that it was a confederate ship now being run by none other than Ward. According to these rumors, the Neva was outfitted with guns stolen from US munitions stored in Shanghai and this said vessel was firing up Union merchant ships going around the Chinese coast.    The United States only had a single warship in China at the time, the USS Saginaw which hunted the so called Neva. When they finally caught the Neva, the so called guns it held were actually whiskey, it was just a merchant ship, but still the rumors persisted raising Ward as this legendary figure. Now this was all awkward as hell in Shanghai, the american population was overwhelmingly pro union northerners, while the British were more pro confederacy. The American merchants were dependent on the British warships to protect their business and this caused all sorts of conflict. During one particularly bad incident, the Trent incident of 1862 in which a US captain chased down and boarded the British steamer Trent trying to arrest two confederate diplomats, if you know the story you know the story haha. Long story short it was the confederates trying to go to Britain to make their case and the Union illegally arrested them, anyways this led Admiral Hope to get his naval forces at Shanghai to seize the homes, vessels and assets of the American community. This led to a rumor, Ward was going to pre emptively attack Hope's force. The entire American community in Shanghai thought they might go to war with Britain yet again, but this never came to be.    Meanwhile during all that chaos, the very real threat, the Taiping began to appear on the horizons of Shanghai on January 11th.  The alarms all sounded when smoke emerged due north of the city and a new wave of refugees began pouring in. The smoke began to get closer and closer prompting the foreign community to hold emergency meetings to plan a defense. The Americans, British and French put aside their quarrels and banded together to man the walls. The threat was extremely real, one member of the community had been captured and interrogated by the Taiping about the city defenses and this man reported that he saw the rebels were carrying British and German muskets and that there appeared to be an Arab military advisor and a small group of European mercenaries in their ranks. Then a force of around 3000 Taiping branding muskets seized the town of Wusong just 10 miles north of the city. One British captain reported witnessing the battle and said the Taiping were quite astonishing, very well organized and equipped far better than the Qing seemed to be at the battle of Peiho.    Li Xiucheng did not want to smash Shanghai into pieces, he wanted to do everything possible to take it mostly intact. Thus his strategy was to surround the city and bring her to her knees. Beginning in January, 5 Taiping armies each numbering in the thousands to tens of thousands began surrounding Shanghai at a distance of several miles each. Soon a propaganda campaign emerged between Songjiang and Shanghai, with written notices stating the Taiping would ensure the safety and protection of all those who joined their side. As for the foreign community, Li Xiucheng warned them to stay out of the conflict, and that anyone caught giving aid to the Qing “will be like a flying moth dashing into the fire, seeking his own extirpation.” Thus Shanghai was under siege and the communications to inland places were severed. Admiral Hope sent word to Hong Kong asking for reinforcements and the consul of Canton relayed the dire news back to Britain. The new wave of refugees brought far too many mouths to the city. 80,000 or so Taiping surrounded Shanghai and word was that more would be coming from Suzhou by the end of the month.   The main defensive body for the foreign community were British and French troops who manned the walls, alongside 200 volunteers, some police and a contingent of Punjabi infantry. In an unusual fashion, on January the 26th, snow began to fall, now do remember Shanghai lays in a subtropical zone rarely seeing temperatures below freezing. By the time the Taiping began to fully encircling Shanghai there was about 2 feet of snow in the area and this had a paralyzing effect in the lower Yangtze region. By the end of January the eastern seaboard froze. The weather would break in early February, but the Taiping were delayed greatly by all of this. The Taiping found an unexpected resistance at Songjiang, Ward's force. Now after losing so many battles, Ward had stopped simply recruiting westerners, he now began training Chinese instead. He had a minimal staff of American and European officers overseeing the training of his Chinese forces and because of the payment differences, they Chinese were paid a tenth of what the westerns were paid, he had a pretty large force under him. Ward taught his Chinese soldiers how to respond to english commands and standard bugle calls. The men were outfitted with european style uniforms, typically blue jackets for artillery men and green jackets for infantry. They were trained in the western fashion and equipped with cutting edge weaponry, British enfield rifles, some Prussian made rifles and the odd American rifle or pistol here or there. But the Taiping were also getting their hands on some western weaponry. One report in 1862 showed a ship was caught smuggling 300 cannons, 100 cases of small arms and 50 tons of ammunition to the Taiping from Singapore. Another report indicated the Taiping at Wusong had been supplied with nearly 3000 muskets, 800 pieces of artillery and 18,000 cartridges, a dangerous amount to be sure.   On February the 3rd, Wards new militia fought the Taiping managing to hold out at Songjiang against a force of 20,000 rebels. Their success was largely due to hidden artillery batteries they had placed outside the town which surprised the rebels during their approach, gunning down over 2000 men before their commander called for a retreat. Wards men managed to capture 700 Taiping alive and shipped them back to Shanghai in chains. Two days after the battle, Ward went on the offensive attacking a Taiping outpost halfway between Songjiang and Qingpu forcing the garrison commander to pull out. This was the first time the Shanghai gentry funded private army had any real success and this prompted them to rename the force to give it more inspiration, and thus it Wards militia became known as the famous “Ever Victorious Army” (EVA). Many of you may have heard of this force if you are American, its probably one of the very few things known about the Taiping rebellion in the west to be honest. The EVA force took orders from Wu Xu, their main benefactor, who by no means trusted his General Ward. Ward and the westerners continuously plundered where they went, despite Wu Xu pleading for them not to. In order to try and secure some form of loyalty from Ward, one of the wealthiest backers, the banker Yang Fang married his daughter off to Ward. The Chinese women had been betrothed to another, but the man died before the wedding making her unmarriageable within the Chinese culture. It was a mutual arrangement, for Ward he could pressure his wife to push the backers to pay up and for the backers they could pressure Ward to remain loyal.    Now after the snowstorm dissipated, and I refer to it as a snowstorm simply because my source does, but as a Canadian if you think 2 feet of snow is a storm wow haha. Admiral Hope and Rear admiral Auguste Leopold Protet signed a joint agreement on February 13th to defend Shanghai from the Taiping based on Hope's 30 mile radius idea. They formed a land force to take out into the field against the Taiping, although the British parliament had made it clear to Hope he was not to break neutrality unless it was to save the lives of British subjects. Hope as you can imagine disregarded the orders. Their force was not very large, 900 French and 650 British soldiers, some sailors as a reserve and 200 civilian volunteers including Americans. The Qing forces in Shanghai were around 10,000 strong. Hope had no…well hope to match the Taiping out in the field, but he believed he could hold the walls. If he wanted to perform any action out in the field he simply needed more men, and take a wild guess who he went to. Oh yes the man he tried to arrest on countless occasions, the wild filibuster Ward.    Since Ward now was recruiting Chinese rather than trying to steal away westerners, and given his recent military victories, Admiral Hope decided to form an alliance with Ward. Ward had zero interest in the defense of Shanghai, but Hope enticed him with gunships that could move his men to hit Taiping towns along the riverways, un gagnon gagnon. Frederick Bruce approved the alliance of convenience, but stressed while they could perhaps drive the Taiping out of the immediate area, they had to allow the Qing forces to actually push further and to garrison towns taken. Zeng Guofan upon hearing of all of this, disapproved and did not think it would prove fruitful. But he had no large cards to play in the east, and if the EVA held Shanghai, well that would be just dandy. And when Wards men won the battle for Songjiang on february 20th, zeng Guofan begrudgingly sent word to Beijing that it was in the dynasty's best interests to allow the bizarre foreign mercenary force to continue its work in Shanghai and even Ningbo if they could get there. But he also strongly warned them not to let the EVA forces campaign further inland, especially not against Nanjing. If foreigners were to help defeat Nanjing, what might they demand as a reward for such deeds.    Now give the Eva would be augmenting the Shanghai area, now Zeng Guofan felt perhaps he could dedicate some forces there, afterall if he could grab Shanghai it would be an enormous boost to his power. He approached the Gentry of Shanghai and they found common ground. They sought further protection and Zeng sought funding for his campaign against Nanjing. Thus Zeng Guofan tossed an army to try and break the siege of Shanghai, if they were successful that said army could later be used to cut off Nanjing. Another enormous benefit of this arrangement was Zeng Guofan obtaining what Hong Rengan so desperately desired. The Shanghai backers, nominally Wu Xu formed a contract with a British firm, Mackenzie, Richardsons & company to use their steamships. Now Zeng Guofan could move his forces unimpeded down river to Shanghai aboard British steamers. The Taiping could not fire upon the ships because of the Union Jack and in just 3 round trips, 6500 of Li Hongzhangs new Anhui forces were encamped in Shanghai ready for campaigning. Li Hongzhang then assumed his role as governor of the province and by proxy became the leader of the Shanghai backers, while Wu Xu would retain control over the EVA forces. Meanwhile, with Shanghai under Li Hongzhang's oversight, Zeng Guofan and both his brothers Zeng Guoquan and Guobao began a march towards Nanjing.   Shanghai was under siege, albeit from quite a distance, still this had an enormous effect on its economy, its very lifeblood. The price of rice went up 50%, flour and firewood doubled, but the Taiping were not attacking the walls, not yet at least. Joint operations between the EVA and foreign defenders began on a small scale in mid february with an assault upon High Bridge, 8 miles away from Shanghai proper. Ward had 600 men while Hope and Protet brought 500. The battle was a quick one, with only a single Frenchman killed before the Taiping fled the town. Then on April the 23rd a rather fateful action occurred at Ningbo. A taiping commander received a promotion, now General Fan and in his honor they fired a 10am salute from the cannons facing the river. The guns apparently were not well aimed as a handful of projectiles went across the river and hit the French gunship l'etoile as it was passing by. Admiral Hope and Protet used the situation to dispatch their forces led by Captain Roderick Dew aboard Encounter to retaliate against Ningbo. However when Dew got to Ningbo the Taiping profusely apologized and stated they wanted to remain under friendly terms and would make sure it never happened again. Hope and Protet were not at all content with this and sent word to demand the Taiping take down all the guns on the eastward facing wall of Ningbo. They were given 24 hours to comply or else the British would do it themselves. Well the Taiping refused to comply, because they obviously needed said cannons where they were to defend against the Qing, but they offered to take away the gunpowder from said cannons and to only provide it back if the Qing attacked. Then on May 5th a large group led by the disposed Ningbo gentry, got together a group of 150 small armed boats led by some pirates and peasants to come up the river to attack Ningbo and as they did so they asked the British and French for aid. Just as a mere coincidence their point of attack was the same eastern wall. Thus the British and French invited the motley group to their side of the river. Then Captain Dew sent word to the Taiping “If you fire the guns or muskets from the battery or walls opposite the Settlement, on the advancing Imperialists, thereby endangering the lives of our men and people in the foreign Settlement, we shall then feel it our duty to return the fire, and bombard the city.” It would turn out this was all a planned scheme go figure.    The motley group began approaching Ningbo, but then positioned itself in such a way as to push the European gunships between them and the city. Accounts differ, by the Europeans state one of the Taiping cannons fired first upon the Encounter killing 2 crewmen. It is also alleged that the person operating said cannon was actually a servant of one of the Shanghai gentry backers. Then the British and French ships began to bombard Ningbo before the combined allied party stormed the eastern wall. The motley group were actually the last to storm the city, leaving most of the bloody work to the europeans. According to an eyewitness account “in a few hours did more damage than the rebels did in the whole of the five months that they had possession, chopping off the heads of the unlucky rebels that he caught.” The British press went right to work demonizing the Taiping, a lot of which was based on witness accounts from specific men responsible for trying to break the neutrality stance of Britain. There was also a need to create a narrative to control China in general. Britain had turned its attention squarely to asia since the American civil war had broken much of their trade. The Times declare “the only route to Great Britain's economic survival lay down the path of the Taipings Annihilation”. The Times carried on stating the tea market was being ruined allegedly by the Taiping, and to compensate Britain would have to raise the tax rate on tea to preserve revenue. This would bring hardship to the tea drinking working class of Britain who were already suffering from the textile depression. Thus the stance of neutrality was hurting the good people of Britain, boy oh boy do you see the parallels to today's politics.    The warmongers won the day and Britain's government's hands were tied, thus Britain was dragged into a proxy war with the Taiping. The European coalition, EVA, the Qing and Li Hongzhangs Anhui army were now an allied front embarking on a large campaign to push the Taiping out of the Shanghai region. The beginnings of the campaign were largely successful as a result of the superior firearms, by May 16th a combined force left Shanghai and Songjiang marched upon Qingpu. They bombarded the town for 2 hours using 40 artillery pieces, including a 68 pounder and 4 giant 110 pound naval armstrong guns. Its gates were blown to splinters and 3500 of Wards Chinese EVA troops stormed the town as “god save the queen” was blasted by the military band. 4 days later Admiral Protet led an assault upon South Bridge which lay due south of Songjiang and was shot right through the heart by a Taiping sniper. His death enraged the French who took out their vengeance upon the nearby town of Zhelin where they massacred 3000 civilians, including women and children before raising it to the ground.    While the allied force proved very capable at seizing walled cities, holding them was another matter entirely. They simply did not have enough manpower to hold everything they took. After taking Qingpu, Li Xiucheng sent a large force from Suzhou to hit Songjiang, since the EVA force was absent. Ward turned back to hit Songjiang with 2000 EVA troops, leaving 1500 to garrison Qingpu, which fell under a siege to more Taiping. The garrison of 1500 men held out for a month, but ultimately were forced to torch the city and make their escape. In the summer of 1862, the British and French handed over a group of Taiping prisoners over to Qing forces and according to an eyewitness sat by idly while the Qing performed horrible atrocities. Here is part of the harrowing account: “A young female, apparently about eight months pregnant, who never uttered a groan or sigh at all the previous cruelties she had endured from the surrounding mob, had her infant cut out of her womb, and held up in her sight by one of its little hands, bleeding and quivering; when, at the sight, she gave one heartrending, piercing screech that would have awakened pity in a tiger, and after it had been in that state dashed on her breast, she, with a last superhuman effort, released her arms from those holding her down, and clasped her infant to her bleeding heart, and died holding it there with such force that they could not be separated, and were thus thrown together on the pile of other carcasses. Another young woman among the prisoners awaiting her turn to be disembowelled, with a fine boy of ten months old crowing and jumping in her arms, had him snatched suddenly away from her, and flung to the executioner, who plunged the ruthless knife into his tender breast before his mother's eyes. Infants but recently born were torn from their mother's breasts, and disembowelled before their faces. Young strong men were disembowelled, mutilated, and the parts cut off thrust into their own mouths, or flung among the admiring and laughing crowd of Chinamen.“May God forgive England for the part she is taking in this war”    The foreign press ran rampant stories of the horror and brutality, many still trying to stop their nations from taking an active role in China. Others pointed out the savagery to be a justification for colonizing China. Admiral Hope's vision of creating a 30 mile radius around Shanghai proved impossible. The allied coalition did not have enough men to garrison the places they took from the rebels and given the gruesome events at Qingpu and the death of Protet, Hope was forced to toss the towel. Soon the forces pulled back to the walls of Shanghai and Hope was replaced by Rear Admiral Augustus Leopold Kuper. Captain Dew likewise was reprimanded for his part in the escalations to war. Ward could not be reprimanded of course, but his EVA force was left to fight on its own, something he did not mind too much as the British and French forces often stopped his men from plundering.   While things were going badly for Shanghai, Zeng Guofan was enjoying an amazing campaign. Duolonga's cavalry were harassing Chen Yucheng in northern Anhui for him to flee to Luzhou. From Luzhou Chen Yucheng had an extremely bold strategy, he began calling upon Taiping forces and Nian groups to launch a four pronged campaign going north through Henan and Shaanxi provinces with the ultimate goal of hitting Beijing. Three of the four armies marched north as planned early in 1862, but Chen Yucheng found himself stuck in Luzhou, under a siege by the forces of Duolonga and the Xiang army. His communication to the other 3 armies were cut off and his provisions were dwindling. On may 13th, he took 4000 men and broke out of the siege trying to flee north, but Duolonga's cavalry force gave quick pursuit. Chen Yucheng headed for the city of Souzhou which one of the army groups had been sent to attack. The army was led by Miao Peilin, someone Chen Yucheng had gotten to defect during the siege of Anqing. Chen Yucheng reached Shouzhou before Duolonga's cavalry cut him to pieces, much to his relief. But as he entered the city, Miao Peilin was nowhere to be found. It turns out, because of the severing of communication, Chen Yucheng had no idea that Miao Peilin had been defeated at Shouzhou already back on April 25th, his entire army surrendered to the Qing. Miao had turned back over to the other side, once a defector always a defector as they say. A large reason he was allowed to defect back was because he promised to deliver to the Qing a Taiping general, ie: Chen Yucheng.   Chen Yucheng was taken prisoner and before he was executed in June of 1862 he had this to say to his captors. “It is Heaven's will that has brought me here, and there is nothing that can be said of my past. I have long enjoyed the reputation of a victorious commander, but now I would prefer to look to the future. For the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to lose me, one single man, it will be as if the mountains and the rivers of the kingdom have been reduced by half. I bear a great debt of gratitude to my Heavenly Dynasty and will not surrender. The general of a defeated army cannot beg for his life. But as for the four thousand men I command, they are veterans of a hundred battles, and I do not know whether they are still alive. You can cut me to pieces for the crimes I have committed, but this has nothing to do with them.” And so the Brave King was dead.   The death of Chen Yucheng and the preoccupation of Li Xiucheng with the Shanghai front left Nanjing vulnerable. The Taiping garrisons along the Yangtze river between Anqing and Nanjing would have no hope for reinforcements from the north nor the east, and Zeng Guoquan was on the march towards the Taiping capital. As Zeng Guoquan advanced, Taiping garrisons simply abandoned their outposts and forts, setting fire to their stockades before fleeing. It was an absolute disaster for the Taiping. They had always known the Qing forces would strike Nanjing from Anqing, but they never expected it to come this soon. By late May, Zeng Guoquans forces were reaching the Nanjing outskirts. Zeng Guoquan first seized an important junction in the riverway that controlled Nanjing's moat. Then on May 30th, he attacked a small hill just outside the southern gate of Nanjing.   The hill was known as Yuhuatai “terrace of flowering rain”, and it held a fort at its top. While Nanjing had been so heavily fortified, people literally said it was impenetrable, it did have vulnerabilities and Yuhuatai was one of them. The hill was over 300 feet high, around a mile across and about a half mile away from Nanjing southern gate. From atop the hill one could peer into Nanjing, the perfect base of operations one would want when sieging such a grand city. Zeng Guoquan had 20,000 men with naval support to provision him. Zeng Guoquan dug in and began to send word back to his brother asking him to help procure western arms. Zeng Guofan was surprisingly not impressed with western arms. He wrote about how he found them quite finicky, overly complicated and prone to breaking down after 20-30 shots. He wrote back to his brother ‘the way to achieve victory is to be found in men, not in arms. Bao Chao has no foreign guns and no foriegn powder, yet he repeatedly achieves great victories. He Chun and Zhang Guoliang had foreign cannons with their Green standard force's siege of Nanjing in 1860, but they did not prevent their defeat. A true beauty doesn't fuss over pearls and jade, and a great writer needs no more than brush and ink. If a general is truly skilled at war, why should he go grasping for foreign weapons?””. Despite his views on the matter, Zeng Guoquan's persistent pleas eventually led him to purchase foreign arms from agents at Canton and Shanghai. Still Zeng Guofan insisted the foundation of their armies should rely on Jingalls, bird guns, Chinese made cannons and the good old sword and spear.    One thing Zeng Guofan did realize though was the dramatic advantage of steamships. While in Anqing in 1862 he purchased a small steamship from Shanghai and gathered all the Qing scientists and engineers he could to the city to try and reverse engineer it. The ship soon broke down and none were able to repair it. But by the summer one engineer managed to build a working prototype steam engine and a year later Anqing would create a 28 foot long steamer. Meanwhile Prince Gong was also enthralled by the power of the steam engine and was trying to procure the purchase of some ships from Britain. While Britain wanted to keep the facade of neutrality going, especially after the Shanghai embarrassment, the idea of selling steamships to the Qing was an interesting one. If they provided ships, perhaps Britain's interests in China could be secured simply by protecting major waterways like the Yangtze. Prince Gong found a agent to try to get the ships, one Horatio Nelson Lay. Lay went to work approaching Captain Sherard Osborn, the captain of the Furious during the second opium war. He offered the captain a 4 year contract stating the man would take orders only from the Qing emperor and no other in China. These orders would go first to Lay, who would take up residence in Beijing.   Now a nit picky piece of information here. Unlike the civil war in America, where Britain granted belligerent status to the confederates, in China no such recognition was ever made. This was because the British parliament wanted to officially remain neutral. But because there was no official belligerent status for the Taiping, this meant they were not protected by Britain's foreign enlistment act, which prevented the selling of things like, gunships to any party that was at war with a nation Britain had friendly relations with, ie: the Qing. Thus Britain was free to sell gunships to the Qing to be used against the Taiping. Ironically at the same time Lay was trying to procure a naval force from Britain, so was James Bulloch of the Confederate states of America. Lay would find success whereas James would find failure. Now there were some hiccups for Lay when it came to the foreign enlistment act. It was forbidden for British subjects to enlist in the national militaries of foreign states, thus captain Osborn would require special permission from the crown.    But wouldn't you know it, in August of 1862 the foreign enlistment act was suspended suddenly and parliament went into recess over the entire summer and would only reconvene in february. Thus Lay and Osborn were able to serve the Qing and were allowed to hire British crews for the ships. Four months later, Lord Palmerston's government issued a second order making it lawful for any British officer to enlist in the service of the Qing emperor to quote “to serve the said Emperor in any military, warlike, or other operations, and for that purpose to go to any place or places beyond the seas, and to accept any commission, warrant, or other appointment from or under the said Emperor, and to accept any money, pay, or reward for their services.” There was one twist to all of this, anyone who served the Qing would have to resign or take a leave of absence from the Royal Navy. As you can imagine this meant that anyone who took the job would go unregulated and be unaccountable for their behavior, basically they were becoming much like Ward's mercenaries. By the time february came, all the work could not be undone, though the Tory's tried to reverse everything accusing Palmerston and the Whigs for getting Britain directly involved in the Chinese civil war. The entire thing was lambasted by multiple presses in Britain who pointed out rightfully, that Britain's finances were tied to the Qing paying reparations, and if the Taiping toppled the Qing the money might stop flowing.    The first 3 vessels to be sent to China were the Mohawk, Jasper and Africa, renamed the Pekin, Amoy and China. The rest of the ships would be freshly constructed and it would take roughly a year to get them all over there. It was to be 7 gunships and one store vessel, they would range from men-of-war to smaller steamers that could traverse shallow riverways. They would carry around 40 guns and a crew of 400. Interestingly the Qing had never before required a naval ensign, so Lay helped them invent one, a green and yellow ensign with a dragon in the middle. The ships lacked the latest iron armoy, but this was insignificant as the Taiping had no decent artillery to hit them. The fleets flagship, the Kiang-soo was a 241 footer that could reach 19 knots, a very fast ship for its day. The fleet was called the Anglo-Chinese expedition, though many Historians refer to it as the Lay-Osborn flotilla. Though for the common Chinese people who were witnessing their weak imperial government's willingness to pay foreign mercenaries to win their battles, they deemed it the Vampire Fleet. The year of 1863 would prove very fruitful for the Qing forces.    I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. It seems the rest of the world were now allied against the Taiping. Zeng Guoquan made an extremely bold attack upon Yuhuatai ushering in the deathrows of the Taiping capital. What could the Taiping do to stop it.  

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