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[[Category:Taiping Rebellion 1850-64|Kahding, Siege of]]
{{Battles_Infobox
|partof=[[:Category:Taiping Rebellion 1850-64|Taiping Rebellion 1850-64]]
|date=1 May 1862
|location=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiading Jiading, Jiading District, Shanghai, China]
|casualties2=
}}
== Allied Forces ==
''Only the British troops took part in the storming of Kahding''
{|
|Royal Engineers
|22 men
|-
|[[Royal Artillery]] with 7 guns & 6 mortars
|100 men
|-
|HM [[31st Regiment of Foot]]
|552 men
|-
|HM [[99th Regiment of Foot]]
|140 men
|-
|HM [[67th Regiment of Foot]]
|140 men
|-
|[[18th Musulman Rajput Infantry|22nd Punjab Native Infantry]]
|350 men
|-
|[[5th Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|5th Bombay Native Infantry]]
|350 men
|-
|French Contingent with 8 guns
|900 men
|-
|Ward's Legion of Chinese
|1,000 men
|-
|British Naval Division under Capt Borlase with 9 guns
|330 men
|-
|Total
|3,884 men
|-
|Imperial troops under Gen Le
|5,000 men
|}
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion Wikipedia - Taiping Rebellion]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zMwNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA509&dq=Kah-ding&as_brr=3&ei=AECXSMm2L4aCjwH0x-3JAw#PPA509,M11 Google Books - Siege of Kah-ding]<br>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101026328/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Brig Gen Sir Charles Staveley]
