Harry Parkes (diplomat)
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Sir Harry Smith Parkes was a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the C
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Parkes during the Second Opium War 1856-1860 Q70023
Attack on the delegation of Sir Harry Smith Parkes to the Meiji Emperor, 23 March 1868.
Old Summer Palace
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The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan or Yuanmingyuan Park, originally called the Imperial Gardens, and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-
Harry Parkes (diplomat)
…for the torture and deaths of the other members of the delegation, Lord Elgin ordered the British and French troops to burn down the Qing Empire's Old Summer Palace in the northwest of Beijing. Following the signing of the Convention of Peking on 18 October 1860, Parkes returned to his post in Canton in January…
Remains of the Old Summer Palace
Yuanmingyuan Ruins of Dashuifa 20120715
远瀛观遗址 Ruins of Yuanyingguan Hall 2013.03 panoramio
Yuanmingyuan Haiyantang 20130126