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Samuel Cornell Plant (8 August 1866 – 26 February 1921) was a British sailor who is best known as the first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper Yangtze River in 1900.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Boxer Rebellion, Chinese Maritime Customs Service, Chongqing, East Anglian Daily Times, Hong Kong Cemetery, Karun, Mary Emelia Moore, Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Red Guards, Suffolk, Swire, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze, Yichang.

  2. Merchant ships of China
  3. People from Suffolk (before 1974)

Boxer Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".

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Chinese Maritime Customs Service

The Chinese Maritime Customs Service was a Chinese governmental tax collection agency and information service from its founding in 1854 until it split in 1949 into services operating in the Republic of China on Taiwan, and in the People's Republic of China. Samuel Cornell Plant and Chinese Maritime Customs Service are British expatriates in China.

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Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.

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East Anglian Daily Times

The East Anglian Daily Times is a British local newspaper for Suffolk and Essex, based in Ipswich.

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Hong Kong Cemetery

Hong Kong Cemetery, formerly Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery and before that Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery, is one of the early Christian cemeteries in Hong Kong dating to its colonial era beginning in 1845.

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Karun

The Karun (کارون) is the Iranian river with the highest water flow, and the country's only navigable river.

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Mary Emelia Moore

Mary Emelia Moore (7 March 1869–17 May 1951) was a New Zealand Presbyterian missionary in China from 1897 to 1948 for the Church of Scotland Yichang Mission.

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Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain

The Order of the Precious Brilliant Golden Grain (Order of Chia-Ho (嘉禾)), more simply the Order of the Golden Grain, was an award of the Republic of China.

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Pacific Steam Navigation Company

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company (Compañía de Vapores del Pacífico) was a British commercial shipping company that operated along the Pacific coast of South America, and was the first to use steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean.

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Red Guards

The Red Guards were a mass, student-led, paramilitary social movement mobilized by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 until their abolishment in 1968, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Swire

Swire Group is a highly diversified global corporation, with businesses encompassing property, beverages and food chain, aviation, marine, as well as trading and industrial activities. Samuel Cornell Plant and Swire are History of foreign trade in China.

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Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. Samuel Cornell Plant and Three Gorges Dam are Yangtze River.

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Yangtze

Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world. Samuel Cornell Plant and Yangtze are Yangtze River.

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Yichang

Yichang, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China.

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See also

Merchant ships of China

People from Suffolk (before 1974)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cornell_Plant

Also known as Cornell Plant, Pu Lan Tian.