Taku Forts (China)
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Name (Latin)
Taku Forts (China)
Other forms of name
Dagu Forts (China)
Paiho Forts (China)
Coordinates
117.7121667 117.7121667 38.97486111 38.97486111 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Fortification China
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q548289
Library of congress:
sh 85132062
Sources of Information
- Perkins, D. Encyc. of China, 1999:Boxer Rebellion (On June 17 [1900], allied forces took the Qing Dagu Fortress at Tianjin)
- Cambridge history of China:v. 11, p. 121 (Taku Forts)
- Answer.com, Nov. 29, 2006(Taku Forts, also called Peiho Forts: forts located by the Hai River estuary in Tianjin. The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Emperor Jiajing between 1522 and 1527. Its purpose was to protect Tianjin from foreign invasions. During the Opium Wars, it was expanded and five big forts and 20 smaller ones were built. Most of them were dismantled when the Eight-National Alliance Forces invaded China during the Boxer rebellion.)
- Treaties of Tianjin, 1858 and 1860, Web site, Nov. 29, 2006(attack on the Taku (Dagu) Forts in Tianjin on Nov. 20th and 21st, 1858)
- ChinaCulture.org Web site, Nov. 29, 2006(Dagu Fort is located in the estuary of the Haihe River in eastern Tanggu District, Tianjin. "By 1885, [...], there were 52 forts in Dagu. [...] in 1901, in the 27th year of the reign of Guangxu, the Dagu Forts were dismantled. Only the fort on the south bank called Hai has [been] preserved and has remained comparatively intact.")
Wikipedia description:
The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km (37 mi) southeast of the Tianjin urban center.
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