What the records say
- When
- 20 May 1858
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 38.97° N, 117.71° E
- Description
- 1858 battle
Battle of Taku Forts (1858)
Battle of the Second Opium War
The First Battle of Taku Forts was the first attack of the Anglo-French alliance against the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, on 20 May 1858, during the Second Opium War.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в ходе Второй опиумной войны англо-французская эскадра берёт форты Дагу в устье реки Байхэ и создаёт угрозу Пекину”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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