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  • Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • A Chinese soldier bearing weapons on his back, on horseback. Watercolour by C. Wirgman, ca. 1857.
  • A Chinese soldier bearing a rifle, on horseback. Watercolour by C. Wirgman, ca. 1857.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses following the capture of the fort by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860, during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Taku, China: South Taku Fort encampment during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1859.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort bearing raised British and French flags; Chinese corpses in the foreground; on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Taku, China: the North Fort on the day of capture from the Chinese by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.
  • Taku, China: entrance to the North Fort on the Peiho River during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.