Taku Forts information

The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in...

Rinchen to guard the Taku Forts (also romanized as Ta-ku Forts and also called Daku Forts) near Tianjin. Sengge Rinchen reinforced the forts with additional...

Battle of Taku Forts may refer to: Battle of Taku Forts (1858), an unsuccessful Chinese defense during the Second Opium War Battle of Taku Forts (1859),...

on Tagish Lake Taku Forts, forts on the south bank of the Hai He, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China Taku, Saga, a city in...

rearranged to heighten the photograph's dramatic impact (see events at Taku Forts). He was also in the cities of Delhi, Cawnpore, Meerut, Benares, Amritsar...

invasion by Anglo-French forces during the Second Opium War whereby the Taku Forts were captured. In 1863 seagoing ships could reach the head of navigation...

explaining why he had given aid to the British squadron in an attack on Taku Forts at the mouth of the Hai River, thereby abandoning the strict American...

Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Taku after the Taku forts in China. HMS Taku (1900) was a captured destroyer. Originally built by...

images. His photographs of the Taku Forts formed a narrative recreation of the battle, showing the approach to the forts, the effects of bombardments on...

idea of taking the Taku Forts and the ships under his command were able to make a noteworthy contribution in the Battle of Taku Forts (1900). On 8 June...

Stanley Fort All forts in Macau were built during or used during Portuguese rule: Fortaleza da Guia Fortaleza de Mong Há Fortaleza do Monte Taku Forts, Tianjin...

received the medal for the First China War) Fatshan 1857 Canton 1857 Taku Forts 1858 Taku Forts 1860 Pekin 1860 The medal could also be awarded without a clasp...

possessions in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Amoy, and Hankou, as well as at two forts (Taku and the Shan Hai Guan). It is noteworthy to pinpoint that only in Tianjin...

tried to recapture the forts from the river direction.[citation needed] Sailing from Hong Kong in July, the capture of the Taku Forts on 21 August 1860 had...

took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, Lieutenant Lenon, with Lieutenant Robert Montresor Rogers and...

Northern of the Taku Forts, China, Fitzgibbon accompanied a wing of the 67th Regiment when it took up a position within 500 yards of the fort. He proceeded...

after the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Tianjin at the Battle of the Taku Forts (1900), without a formal declaration of war. The foreigners and Chinese...

he joined the British and French at Shanghai. When the Allies took the Taku Forts Putyatin offered himself as a mediator. The result was the Treaties of...

Station fleet, which, on 23 October, bombarded and captured the Pearl River forts on the approach to Canton and proceeded to bombard Canton itself, but had...

forces in the Battle of Taku Forts, which guarded the river approach to Tianjin. On July 6 the 9th Infantry Regiment arrived at Taku. Colonel Emerson H. Liscum...