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Chapoo
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English
thumb|right|300px|A diagram of the "Capture of Chapoo" in 1842.
Etymology
A romanization of en cmn - en zh - zh 乍浦 sudden bank Zhàpǔ. Compare Wade-Giles romanization Cha4-p'u3.
Proper noun
en obsolete en Zhapu.
en November 26, 1842 GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES. w:The Spectator https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1842-11-26_15_752/ 752 0038-6952 1766325 1139 https://archive.org/details/sim_spectator-uk_1842-11-26_15_752/page/1139/ 2 Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
en 2007 w:Dan Simmons The Terror (novel) The Terror https://archive.org/details/terrornovel00dans/ 2009 Fiction w:Little, Brown and Company 0-316-00807-9 234441234 300 https://archive.org/details/terrornovel00dans/page/300/ The dashing lad — twenty-nine at the time — had used rockets to drive the Chinese off the hilltops of Tzekee and Segoan, used rockets again to drive them out of Chapoo, fought ashore at the Battle of Woosung, and returned to his expertise with rockets during the capture of Ching-Kiang-Fu.