of
British Malaya for the uprising, . At this time
Malaya, which included what is now
Peninsular Malaysia and
Singapore, had the largest
Overseas Chinese population outside of China itself. Many of them were rich and
carried out activities for the revolutionaries. On November 13, 1910, Sun Yat-sen, along with several leading figures of the
Tongmenghui, gathered at the
Penang conference to draw up plans for a decisive battle. The following day on November 14, 1910, Sun Yat-sen chaired an Emergency Meeting of the
Tongmenghui at 120 Armenian Street (now the
Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang) and raised
Straits Dollars $8,000 on the spot. The planning events are known as the
1910 Penang Conference. Originally planned to occur on April 13, 1911, the preparations on April 8 did not go as planned, delaying the date to April 27. Huang Xing and nearly a hundred fellow revolutionaries forced their way into the residence of the
Qing Viceroy of
Guangdong and
Guangxi provinces. The uprising was initially successful but Qing reinforcements turned the battle into a catastrophic defeat. Most revolutionaries were killed, only few managed to escape. Huang Xing was wounded during the battle; he lost two of his fingers when his hand was hit by a bullet. 86 bodies were found (but only 72 could be identified), and the bodies of yet many others were not found. The dead were mostly nationalistic, revolutionary youths with all kinds of social backgrounds – former students, teachers, journalists, and patriotic overseas Chinese. Some of them were of high rank in the Alliance. Before the battle, most of the revolutionaries knew that the battle would probably be lost, since they were heavily outnumbered, but they went into battle anyway. The mission was carried out like that of a suicide squad. Their letters to their loved ones were later found. ==Legacy==