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Auguste Léopold Protet

 
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Auguste Léopold Protet (1808-1862) was a French Navy admiral. He fought in the Second Opium War, but was mortally wounded in the Taiping Rebellion at the Fengxian District of Shanghai on afternoon May 17, 1862. There is a temple in his memory.

The French aviso (corvette) Protet (F742) was named after him and active until the 1980s.

See also

Battle of Shanghai (1861)


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