Battle of Taku Forts (1859)

Second Battle of Taku Forts
	Part of the Second Opium War
	; The Taku Forts
Date	June 24–26, 1859
Location	Taku Forts, Hai River, China
Result	Chinese victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom; France; United States	Qing China
Commanders and leaders
James Hope (WIA); Josiah Tattnall	Sengge Rinchen
Strength
United Kingdom ; Land:; ~1,160[1]; Sea:; 11 gunboats; 4 steamers[1]	4,000[2]; 60 artillery pieces[2]; 6 forts[2]
Casualties and losses
British:; 3 gunboats sunk; 3 gunboats grounded[1]; 81 killed[3]; 345 wounded[3]; French:; 12 killed; 23 wounded; American:; 1 launch damaged; 1 killed; 1 wounded	32 killed or wounded[2]

The Second Battle of Taku Forts was a failed Anglo-French attempt to seize the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, in June 1859 during the Second Opium War. A chartered American steamship arrived on scene and assisted the French and British in their attempted suppression of the forts.

The Pei-ho's river basin, known as the Hai River today.

Map of the attack on 25 June

A gun battery of the Taku Forts

References

Bartlett, Beatrice S. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723–1820. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
Ebrey, Patricia. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Elliott, Mark C. "The Limits of Tartary: Manchuria in Imperial and National Geographies." Journal of Asian Studies 59 (2000): 603-46.
Faure, David. Emperor and Ancestor: State and Lineage in South China. 2007.
Platt, Stephen (2012). Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War.

Notes

1 2 3 Janin, Hunt (1999). The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century. McFarland. p. 126–127. ISBN 0-7864-0715-8.
1 2 3 4 "The Second Battle of the Taku Forts". unitedcn.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2010-09-15.
1 2 Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 100. ISBN 1-57607-925-2.

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[hunt-1] 1 2 3 Janin, Hunt (1999). The India-China Opium Trade in the Nineteenth Century. McFarland. p. 126–127. ISBN 0-7864-0715-8.

[第二次大沽口之战-2] 1 2 3 4 "The Second Battle of the Taku Forts". unitedcn.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2010-09-15.

[raugh-3] 1 2 Raugh, Harold E. (2004). The Victorians at War, 1815-1914: An Encyclopedia of British Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 100. ISBN 1-57607-925-2.