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1857年12月24日,英国全权公使额尔金向清朝钦差大臣两广总督叶名琛发出最后通牒,威逼广州投降。1858年1月5日,广州被英法联军攻陷,叶名琛被俘,并被英军带到印度加尔各答,最后客死异乡。在中国的史籍中,叶氏的声誉不佳,长期以来,被史家论定为第二次鸦片战争时
On December 24, 1857, the British empire, Elgin, issued a ultimatum to Ye Mingchen, governor of Qing Dynasty, the imperial envoy to Guangdong and Guangxi, forcing Guangzhou to surrender. January 5, 1858, Guangzhou was captured by British and French coalition forces, captured by Ye Mingchen and brought by the British troops to Calcutta, India, and finally died in a foreign land. In Chinese historical records, Yip’s reputation is not good, for a long time, by the historians as the second Opium War