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	Dagu Forts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taku Fort s (or Dagu Fort ; Chinese : å¤§æ²½è¹å; pinyin : dagu paotai) are forts located by the Hai He (Peiho River) estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China.
		The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Emperor, Jiajing, between 1522 and 1527.
		Dagu Fort was repaired in 1988 and opened to the public in June 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taku_Forts (366 words)

	Victoria Crosses Won by the Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		O n 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, Lieutenant Lenon, with a lieutenant Rogers, Royal Marines, and a private John McDougall of the 44th Regiment, displayed great gallantry in the ditches and entering the North Taku Fort by an embrasure during the assault.
		He was the first Englishman to enter the fort at the storming of the Taku Fort and was wounded in three places.
		On 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, Ensign Chaplin was carrying the Queen's Colours of the Regiment and first planted the Colours on the breach made by the storming party, assisted by a private.
	www.pauljerrard.com /Reg_History/VictoriaCross.html (1329 words)

	from ‘
		Along the casemate walls of the forts still lay the German and Japanese soldiers who had been killed in the final assault, while the concrete forts themselves were just a mass of shale and twisted steel rods where dynamite or falling shells had done their work.
		Into the forts the Japanese filed and, collecting all the German soldiers together in lots, marched them to the barbed-wire entanglements in the rear of the city and after a short rest took them to the foot of Prince Heinrich Berg, where a prison camp had been improvised.
		The two German forts which commanded the sea approaches were Huit-chien-huk and Tscha-nui-va. The first was equipped with two twenty-four-centimeter guns and three fifteen-centimeter guns, while the latter's equipment consisted of two twenty-one- centimeter guns which had been taken from the Chinese Taku forts in 1900.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Tsing_Tao/Japanese_Orient_01.htm (2291 words)

	China - Province Of Chihli
		CROSSING the gulf we reach Taku, at the mouth of the Peiho, and, passing the dismantled forts, ascend the river to Tientsin.
		In 1858 I spent two months at Taku and Tientsin in connection with the tedious negotiations of that year.
		At the latter place I became familiar with the dusty road to the treaty temple; and at the former I witnessed the capture of the forts by the combined squadrons of Great Britain and France.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27/chinese-history-7.shtml (1934 words)

	Taku Forts 1860
		A few days later a reconnaissance force moved towards the Taku Forts and two Queen’s soldiers were wounded by bullets from a Chinese jingal (a huge musket crewed by three men).
		The 31st were involved in the move towards the emplacement at Tang–Ku and the preparation of a shelter trench; the Queen’s took part in the eventual assault.
		The Taku Forts area was surrounded by liquid mud and swampland with deep water courses intersecting it in all directions.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /1661to1966/takuforts/takuforts.html (356 words)

	taku_forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		O n 21 August 1860 at the Taku Forts, China, Lieutenant Lenon, with a lieutenant Rogers, Royal...
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		The battles selected are - Goojerat in India; The Alma in the Crimea; the Taku Forts in China; Magdala in Abyssinia; Ulundi in South Africa which finally crushed the Zulu hordes...
	taku_forts.networklive.org (306 words)

	taku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kosher, BC Kosher Taku Wild smoked salmon is sustainably caught, specially packaged, organically flavored Pacific salmon, the proceeds of which benefit the Tlingit people and Taku River conservation.
		Ocean, Atlin Taku Wild smoked salmon is sustainably caught, specially packaged, organically flavored Pacific salmon, the proceeds of which benefit the Tlingit people and Taku River conservation.
		Juneau floatplane tours to the Taku Glacier Lodge and glacier flightseeing from the harbor of Juneau, Alaska.
	taku.networklive.org (688 words)

	Alaska Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The HBC had already rebuilt the fort one mile away in 1864 due to erosion problems.
		The first fort was located on Apoon Pass about 25 miles from the river mouth.
		Author's Note: Fort Greely (2) (1949), and Fort Wainwright (1940/1961) are modern post-war military bases not included here in order to be consistent with the rest of the website.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/ak.html (1158 words)

	GBN 93 - THE EMPIRE AT WAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of China’s attempts to put a stop to European trading in the region led to combined British and French forces bombarding the Dagu (&#8216;Taku’;) forts which guarded the mouth of the river 100 miles from the capital at Beijing (‘Peking’).
		Many there were, too, who remained in Taku Forts, for our guns had told heavily upon them, and the storming had been very stem.
		What I noticed most, however, when I got inside the forts, were some poor Chinamen who had been chained to the guns the real guns so that they should not be able to run away.
	www.greenhillbooks.com /gbn/93/empire_at_war.htm (1073 words)

	Second Opium War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ye Mingshen, the then governor of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces ordered a non-resistance command to all of the Chinese soldiers on the forts.
		The coalition then cruised north to briefly capture the Taku forts near Tientsin ( Tianjin) in May 1858.
		In June 1858 the first part of the war ended with the Treaty of Tientsin, to which France, Russia, and the United States were party.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Second_Opium_War.html (1009 words)

	GORDON - LoveToKnow Article on GORDON
		He was too late for the attack on the Taku forts, but was present at the occupation of Peking and destruction of the Summer Palace.
		He remained with the British force of occupation in northern China until April 1862, when the British troops, under the command of General Staveley, proceeded to Shanghai, in order to protect the European settlement at that place from the Taiping rebels.
		Gordon was appointed on his return to England Commanding Royal Engineer at Gravesend, where he was employed in superintending the erection of forts for the defence of the Thames.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GORDON.htm (5210 words)

	67th South Hampshire Regiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Later the 2nd /67th was involved in Barcelona, and the fort of San Felipe south of Tarragona on the 31st of May 1813.
		The forts were located on both banks of the Pei-ho River and protected the town of Tuka.
		The capture of the forts led to the occupation of Pekin, where the Chinese surrendered on October 13th.
	www.pauljerrard.com /67th/67thsouth.html (2102 words)

	BRITISH SINLGE MEDALS - CHINA
		Lieut H.M.S. Imperieuse 1859-63 commanded a rocket boat at the capture of Peiho forts and the Starling at capture of Kias-chou.
		Commanded small arm company at the capture of the walled city of Tsingpoo and several towns and stockades, drove off mounted party of Chinese Taeping's and large body of Chinese infantry on banks of Woosung river near Shanghai in March 1862.
		An exceptional medal, contemporary engraved naming as is the case with naval medals.
	www.historikorders.com /china.htm (852 words)

	Askaroo : Taku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Taku Siberians - Small kennel which breeds and exhibits Siberian Huskies and Rottweilers.
		Taku Wilderness Lodge and Glacier Flightseeing - Flightseeing in a classic floatplane, alder-grilled king salmon feast, rich history, tranquility, wildlife.
		Taku Wild Smoked Salmon - Sustainably caught and organically flavored with maple or pepper, produced by the Taku River Tlingit in northern British Columbia.
	www.askaroo.com /info/Taku.html (672 words)

	HMS [Ship] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Linkuntan, Jun 18, 6.30 pm: Taku forts opened fire at one o'clock in the morning, 17th June, on the ships of the squadron.
		After 6 hours engagement forts were silenced and occupied by the allied forces.
		Additional men for storming forts were sent inshore from the ships previous afternoon.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~pbtyc/18-1900/E/01614.html (254 words)

	The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - Battle Field Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Taku Forts, were a series of three forts at the entrance to the Pei-Ho River, in the Gulf of Pechili.
		The Forts were located to the East of Taku, 100 Miles to the South East of Pekin in China.
		We received our orders and received the following details; the walls of the forts were 30ft high, with two ditches, full of water, 45ft wide and 15ft deep to their front, and only one narrow causeway leading to the fort.
	www.army.mod.uk /tigers/battletour.htm (4554 words)

	Taku Forts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Grant's operations against the Taku Forts were very well planned and executed.
		The great difference between the current defense of the Chinese Forts and that of 1848 has consisted of the fact that, the forts, instead of being, as always used to be the case, open in the rear, were in this instance closed in all around by stakes, palisades, ditches and all sorts of insuperable obstacles.
		But they suffered us to effect a landing at Pehtang - after which we had the means of taking their forts in revers and their capture was inevitable.
	www.curme.co.uk /taku.htm (293 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: China
		After withstanding two sieges of their principal fort, Albasin, the Russians signed a treaty with the Chinese at Nerchinsk (27 Aug., 1689), which destroyed their influence in the region of Amur, and from which they did not recover until the middle of the nineteenth century.
		The murder of the French priest Chapdelaine in Kwang-si (26 Feb., 1856) and the seizure at Canton of the lorcha Arrow (8 Oct., 1856) by the Chinese furnished the pretext for a joint action of England and France against China.
		The forts of Taku were recaptured (21 Aug., 1860).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03663b.htm (8678 words)

	Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums - Second China War Medal 1857-60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Six clasps were authorised: China 1842 (rare), Fatshan 1857, Canton 1857, Taku Forts 1858, Taku Forts 1860 and Pekin 1860.
		A joint force of 17,000 British and French troops was assembled and the Taku Forts were captured two years later.
		Pekin was occupied and, in what was seen by some as an act of wanton vandalism, the Imperial Summer Palace was sacked and torched, the ignorant British muppetry not realising the value of the jewels and ancient artwork they were looting and destroying.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=17472 (808 words)

	Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (HMS Orlando)
		Captain Burke's gallantry, and that of the brigade he commanded during the long and arduous fighting, which resulted in the capture of the city, formed the subject of a special dispatch.
		At the beginning of the operations the Orlando had a complement of 486 officers and men, of whom 31 were sent to Peking, 112 to Tientsin, 104 accompanied Sir Edward Seymour, 99 took part in the capture of the Taku Forts, and l6 were absent in lighters, etc., in the river, leaving 124 on board.
		The memorial was built in a Chinese style to hold the bell captured at the North-West Fort, Taku, but it has a varied history of its own.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /city-centre/orlando.htm (545 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: 11th Bengal Lancers
		They weren't involved in the actual storming of the Taku Forts which was bravely carried out by a combined British and French force of infantry.
		The advance to Peking, 100 miles from the Taku Forts, resumed on 8th September.
		The cavalry embarked at Taku at the end of November, the regiment losing 15 horses on the way home due to stormy weather.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/indiancavalry/11thbl.htm (704 words)

	East Essex Regiment (44th Foot) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the years 1858 and 1859, the regiment remained at Fort St George, Madras, from whence it proceeded on active service.
		The 44th took part in the capture of the Sinho entrenchments and the storm of the Taku forts, in which two Victoria Crosses were won.
		For this service, 'Taku Forts' was inscribed on the Colours.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~clday/44hist.htm (503 words)

	War Times
		On 20th May 1858 they captured the Taku forts that guarded the Peiho River mouth, that led to Peking.
		The Treaty compelled the Chinese to sanction the legalisation of the opium trade, repatriations for the war’s expenses and the opening of a further ten ports to foreign commerce.
		However in June 1859, the British and French ambassadors, Frederick Bruce (Elgin’s brother) and M. de Bourboulon, sent to Peking to ratify these treaties were repulsed by a blockade and gunfire at the newly strengthened Taku forts.
	www.wartimesindex.co.uk /infopage.php?menu=wars&display=China&PHPSESSID=6da9f3f1982a88e3ce180619751fb159 (998 words)

	Gunny G's Marines Mini-Sites
		I saw with interest that Hospital Apprentice A. Fitzgibbon, Indian Medical Establishment, was awarded his Victoria Cross for actions while involved in the taking of the Taku Forts, China, on 21 August, 1860.
		Those same forts were also stormed and captured by an international force, that included U. Marines during events concerning the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.
		What makes these forts strategic is they lie at the egress of the Pei Ho River into the Gulf of Po Hai (Yellow Sea).
	www.network54.com /Forum/message?forumid=261850&messageid=1072970205 (498 words)

	Huntingdonshire England Genealogy - Huntingdonshire Military Background
		Basseterre, the principal town of Guadeloupe, was captured on 21st April 1795.
		The Taku Forts were the main aim of this thrust and were taken on the 21st August 1860.
		The Battle Honour 'Taku Forts' were added to the Regimental Honours.
	www.rootsweb.com /~enghun/Military/HuntingdonshireMilitary.htm (2375 words)

	India 2
		Second China War Medal - Taku Forts - 21st August 1860 - 2/60 were present nearby.
		Pursuit of rebels to the left bank of the Goomter & destruction of the Fort Mahondy May 26th 1858.
		Assault and capture of the Fort of Ratawlie November 5th 1858.
	www.zimdocs.btinternet.co.uk /fh/india2.html (1397 words)

	Articles - Second Opium War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although the British were delayed by the India Mutiny, they responded to the "Arrow Incident" in 1857 and attacked Guangzhou from the Pearl River.
		In 1859, after China refused to allow the esablishment of embassies in Beijing as agreed to by the Treaty of Tientsin, a naval force under the command of Admiral Sir James Hope shelled the forts guarding the mouth of the Peiho river.
		It was damaged and withdrew under the cover of fire from a naval squadron commanded by Commodore Josiah Tattnall.
	www.kamero.net /articles/Second_Opium_War (1119 words)

	Frontier
		This is a copy Taku Forts 1858 clasp.
		Note the poor definition on the rosettes as well as the bubble rather than honeycomb effect on the background frosting of the clasp.
		This is a genuine example of the same Taku Forts 1858 clasp, note the differences as described above in particular the honeycomb frosting.
	www.frontiermedals.com /fakes.htm (621 words)

	BOXER REBELLION // CHINA 1900
		There certainly does not seem to have been any bombardment at a time prior to this and there is no mention of heavier warships bombarding the forts from a distance whilst the nine shallow-draft vessels went close up to do so...
		On arrival they were quartered in Tientsin and immediately ordered to provide 300 men to join a force sent to capture the Chinese forts at Pei Tang which overlooked the inland rail route.
		The Victorians joined a force of 7,500 on the ten-day march to the fort, only to find that the town had already surrendered; the closest they came to the enemy was to guard prisoners.
	www.historikorders.com /chinaboxer.htm (6060 words)

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