Battle of Taku Forts (1859)
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 Taku Forts
Chinese gun in the Taku forts
A gun battery of the Taku Forts
The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km (37 mi) southeast of the Tianjin urban center.
View looking north from the gun platform.
67th Foot of the British Army taking the Taku Forts in 1860.
The Capture of the Forts at Taku by Fritz Neumann
Interior of Angle of North Fort Immediately after Its Capture, 21 August 1860