Qualla: Passaleão Incident https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/passaleao-incident-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Passaleão Incident https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident Passaleão Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident/ Photo credit Illustrated London News, Public domain. By the summer of 1849, notices were circulating in Guangzhou offering a reward for the head of Macau's Portuguese governor. The man who had earned that price was João Maria Ferreira do Amaral — one-armed, aggressive, and determined to sever Macau's remaining dependencies on Chinese authority. He had expelled the imperial customs houses. He had ordered Chinese residents to pay taxes to Portugal rather than the mandarins. He had proposed running a road through Chinese graves. And on 22 August, riding outside the Barrier Gate to deliver alms to an elderly Chinese woman he was personally supporting, he was killed.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/passaleao-incident-wp/webw-passale-o-incident-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Passaleão Incident: The Governor Who Pushed Too Hard https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident/ Photo credit Drawn by Auguste Borget, lithograph by Eugene Ciceri, Public domain. Ferreira do Amaral had arrived in Macau committed to a single goal: making Portuguese sovereignty unambiguous. For centuries, Macau had operated in a zone of contested authority — technically Portuguese, but with Chinese customs officials collecting duties, Chinese mandarins gove...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/passaleao-incident-wp/webw-passale-o-incident-the-governor-who-pushed-too-hard.mp3 0:06 2 full Passaleão Incident: Ambush at the Barrier Gate https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident/ Photo credit 杏林小草, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the morning of 22 August, Amaral and his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Jerónimo Pereira Leite, passed through the Portas do Cerco on what was apparently a personal errand — the governor was in the habit of providing for a destitute Chinese woman living near the gate. They were only...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/passaleao-incident-wp/webw-passale-o-incident-ambush-at-the-barrier-gate.mp3 0:06 3 full Passaleão Incident: Thirty-Six Men Against a Fort https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident/ Photo credit Alexandrino António de Melo, Public domain. In the days after the assassination, the Chinese moved troops toward the city, sensing that the Portuguese garrison was weakened and leaderless. On 25 August, the guns of the Qing imperial fort of Latashi — known to the Portuguese as Passaleão, roughly one mile north of Macau — o...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/e/b/w/passaleao-incident-wp/webw-passale-o-incident-thirty-six-men-against-a-fort.mp3 0:06 4 full Passaleão Incident: The Fleet That Destroyed Itself https://qualla.com/passaleao-incident/ Photo credit Pratyeka, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the aftermath, the Portuguese position firmed quickly. Britain, France, and the United States offered support. Reinforcements arrived from Portuguese India and Lisbon. Xu Guangjin, the Viceroy of Liangguang, ordered the capture of Shen Zhiliang to satisfy the Portuguese — he w...

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