十九世纪四十年代,英帝国主义发动了侵略中国的第一次殖民战争——鸦片战争。1842年夏,英国殖民主义者为了要挟清王朝订立殖民条约,又发动了“扬子江战役”。这时,长江口的吴淞炮台、丹徒圌山炮台和镇江焦山炮台,以及苏州、无锡、江阴、常熟、靖江、江都等地人民,都进行了英勇的抵抗,打击了入侵的英国炮舰,在我国近代反侵略史上写下了可歌可泣的一页。由于两江总督牛鉴执行了投降路线,7月11日,英军船舰27艘编成队列,顺利通过了狼山、福山和江阴炮台以后,就很快驶近丹徒圌山东江面,以便进而控制运河一线。当耀武扬威的测量船及后队过圌山炮台时,该处守军虽只有八十多人,却毅然先 In the nineteen forties, the British imperialists launched the first colonial war that invaded China - the Opium War. In the summer of 1842, the British colonialists launched the “Campaign for the Yangtze River” in order to steal the Qing Dynasty’s conclusion of the colonial treaty. At this time, the Wusong Fort at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the Fort Dantu Fort at Zhenjiang and the Fort Jiao Fort in Zhenjiang, and the people in Suzhou, Wuxi, Jiangyin, Changshu, Jingjiang and Jiangdu all conducted brave resistance and attacked the invading British gunboats. Wrote an epic page in the history of our country’s anti-aggression in modern times. Since Liang Jiang, the governor of Liangjiang Province, implemented the surrender route, on July 11, 27 British ships were arranged in a queue and passed the Langshan, Fukuyama and Jiangyin Forts successfully and quickly approached the Dantu Mountain River in order to further Control the canal line. When the gauntable measurement vessel and the back-team over the Dangshan Fort, where the defender only has more than 80 people, but resolutely