Elliot (義律) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Elliot as a diplomat and envoy. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Elliot	義律	Yìlǜ
Native language	Elliot

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0019

Roles

Diplomat
Envoy

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0019

Places and affiliations

Label: Britain / 英 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0019

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: counterpart · Action: demanded-indemnity
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0020
Kind: military · Role: target · Action: trapped-at · Place: Sanyuanli / 三元里
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0027

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0019

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 5 passages

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英兵進踞後山四方砲台，奕山居貢院，砲火及焉，軍民惶懼，乃遣廣州知府餘保純出城見義律議息兵。 British troops occupied the four-sided battery on the rear hill. Yishan stayed in the examination compound while shells fell around him; soldiers and townspeople panicked, and he sent Guangzhou Prefect Yu Baochun out to Elliot to discuss a truce.

義律索煙價千二百萬，美商居間減其半，並許給香港全島，英兵乃退。 Elliot demanded twelve million taels for destroyed opium; American merchants intervened and cut the sum in half, and the entire island of Hong Kong was also conceded before the British withdrew.

疏言：「義律窮蹙乞撫，照舊通商，改償費為追交商欠，由粵海關及籓運兩庫給之。」 In a memorial he wrote: "Elliot, driven to extremity, sued for peace; trade would continue as before; the indemnity would be recast as collection of merchants' debts, to be paid from the Guangdong customs and the grain-transport treasuries."

鄉民於義律未退時，困之三元里，餘保純趨救始得出。 Before Elliot had left, local militia trapped him at Sanyuanli; he got away only when Yu Baochun hurried out to extricate him.

二十二年，英人撤義律回國，以濮鼎查代之，大舉犯浙江、江蘇。 In the twenty-second year the British recalled Elliot and sent Pottinger in his place, then mounted a large campaign against Zhejiang and Jiangsu.