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I've removed the quote:

[O]ne of the junks of the upper line was burnt by means of a stinkpot'; 'was attacked by a mandarin row galley, with seventeen men armed with gingals, rockets, and stinkpots,'; 'endeavoured to lash herself alongside the largest of them, but was driven off by a shower of stinkpots

— W.L. Clowes on the Second Anglo-Chinese War ("Opium war") of 1856 - 1860 http://www.pdavis.nl/China2.htm

since I think it's too fragmented to read at all well on its own. I've moved it here as it's useful enough not to discard completely. Pseudomonas_{( talk)} 13:29, 9 September 2010 (UTC) reply