Further up the Peiho near the forts, Tang-Ku (Tanggu) is taken on August 14. Tang-Ku will serve as a staging area for an overwhelming assault on the forts, the third such attack of the war. On August 21 over 17,000 British and French troops re-capture the Dagu forts.
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of the capture of the forts.
Left: “Attack and capture of the Forts at the Entrance of the River Pei-ho, China, on the 20th May 1858. By the Allied British and French Gun Boats and Boats of the Squadron in the Gulf of Pechili,” chromolithograph by Frederick le Breton BedwellNational Maritime Museum
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Left: “The Storming and Capture of the North Fort, Peiho, on 21 August, 1860,” oil on canvas, by Charles Stewart, 2nd Viscount Hardinge, 1865. The caption notes: “Soldiers of 44th (East Essex) and 67th (South Hampshire) Regiments breaching the walls of the North Fort.”
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Left, translated from French:
“Capture of the Pei-ho Forts (August 21, 1860). — A Sketch by Captain H. G., From the 10th. (See the Political Review of the Week.)”
L'illustration, Journal Universel, Paris,
January 19, 1861 (p. 40)
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top: “Interior of the North Fort, Pei-ho”
bottom, left: “Chinese Field Gun”
bottom, right: “Being Under Difficulties”
Illustrated London News,
January 8 1860, p.547
Illustrated London News Group
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