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Guerre De Chine. Debarquement Dans La Riviere De Peh-Tang. Le 1er. Aout 1860. Entree et prise de possession du fort et du village le 2 Aout.
Lith. de Haguenthal, Pont-a-Mousson. Comp. et Lith. par G.C. de Fortavion.
[n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph, sheet 310 x 470mm. 12¼ x 18½". Chipped and tatty left edge.
In the summer of 1860, an Anglo-French force with 173 ships sailed from Hong Kong and captured the Chinese port cities of Yantai and Dalian to seal the Bohai Gulf. Then they carried out a landing near at Bei Tang (also spelled Pei Tang), some 3 kilometres from the Dagu Fort on 3 August, which they captured after three weeks on 21 August. From a series of scenes illustrating The Second Opium War, a war of the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China from 1856-1860. The French commander was Charles Guillaume Marie Appollinaire Antoine Cousin Montauban, comte de Palikao (1796 - 1878).
[Ref: 10419] £280.00
(£336.00 incl.VAT)
Entrée Triomphale des Armées Alliées a Pékin, le 25 8.bre 1860.
Lith de Haguenthal, Pont-à-Mousson. Comp, et lith par G.C. de Fortavion.
[Haguenthal, Pont-a-Mousson [and] Guerin-Muller, Paris, 1862.]
Lithograph. Printed area 270 x 395mm. Tear in margin.
View of the French troops of Genenal Montauban entering Peking in 1860, during the Second Opium War. The Summer Palace had already been looted and burnt. From Fortavion's 'La Guerre de Chine grand panorama illustre historique et anecdotique'.
[Ref: 7598] £220.00
(£264.00 incl.VAT)
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