| Title | Official despatch from Sidney Herbert to Lieutenant-General Sir James Hope Grant announcing his (Grant’s) appointment as commander of British forces in China. October 22.
Packet also includes copy of a letter from Lord John Russell, Foreign Secretary to Earl Cowley, British ambassador to Paris, dated December 22; a “secret and confidential” letter from Edward Lugard, War Office, to Grant dated December 27 1859; and a copy of a letter from Russell to Cowley dated December 31 1859, setting the middle of April as the time for a combined Anglo-French naval attack on the Chinese forts on the Peiho river. |