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Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, after a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

Tianjin (Tientsin), China: exterior of Notre Dame des Victoires Cathedral. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Taku, China: the North Fort: Chinese corpses following the capture of the fort by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860, during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Taku, China: South Taku Fort encampment during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1859.

Tianjin (Tientsin), China: interior ruins of the Chapel of the Sisters of Charity after the Tianjin Massacre. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Taku, China: the North Fort on the Peiho River during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku, China: the North Fort bearing raised British and French flags; Chinese corpses in the foreground; on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku, China: the Second North Fort interior after capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War: panoramic view: section two. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

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Taku, China: the North Fort bearing raised British and French flags; Chinese corpses in the foreground; on the day of the fort's capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku, China: the Second North Fort interior after capture by the English and French armies during the Second China War: panoramic view: section two. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku, China: the North Fort on the Peiho River during the Second China War. Photograph by Felice Beato, 1860.

Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, after a negative by John Thomson, 1871.