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1866 (15 Nov) single page document headed "Division Navale Des Mers de Chine" (Naval Division/China Seas) Expedition de Coree (Korean Expedition) "Certificat de blessure" (injury report), signed by the commanding Admiral on board of "Le Guerriere", at Mouillage de L'ile Boisse, Korea, 15 November 1866, bearing "Division Navale le des mers de Chine" seal, with French military emblem, folded, with some ageing and paper splits (in 1866, reacting to increasing numbers of Korean and Chinese converts to Catholicism, the Korea government sanctioned massacres of a number of French Catholic missionaries, as well as thousands of Korean converts. That same year France launched a punitive expedition against Korea, invading and occupying portions of Ganghwa Island in the fall of 1866. The French frigate La Guerriere commanded by Admiral Roze was the lead ship in the French campaign against Korea)
Estimate: $1500