Kowloon Peninsula
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The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that is part of the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong, alongside Victoria Harbour and facing toward Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon Pe
An aerial view of Kowloon Peninsula from Hong Kong Island in 2006
Military encampments on Kowloon Peninsula in 1860, looking south toward Hong Kong Island.
An Air France Boeing 747 passing above Kowloon, landing at the old airport.
Hong Kong's old airport, Kai Tak, was located in Kowloon.
Second Opium War
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The Second Opium War, also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War, was fought between the United Kingdom and France against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and 1860. It was the seco
Kowloon Peninsula
…usually referred to British Kowloon, the territory ceded in 1860 as part of a lease subsequently incorporated into the Convention of Peking ending the Second Opium War. This was set by a line east from the fort at the northernmost point of Stonecutters Island, first demarcated by a bamboo palisade and now by Boundary…
Palikao's bridge, on the evening of the Battle of Palikao, by Émile Bayard
The Illustrated London News print of the steamship Ly-ee-moon, built for the opium trade, c. 1859
The execution of the Paris Foreign Missions Society missionary Auguste Chapdelaine was the official cause of the French involvement in the Second Opium War.
The capture of Ye Mingchen after the fall of Canton