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Personal Narrative of Occurrences During Lord Elgin’s Second Embassy to China, 1860
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108061360
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.05.2013
Seiten:
312
Autor:
Henry Brougham Loch
Gewicht:
442 g
Format:
216x140x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This 1869 first-hand account illuminates British and Chinese diplomacy at the close of the Second Opium War.
1. Circumstances that led to Lord Elgin's second embassy to China; 2. Lord Elgin's departure for China; 3. Landing at Peh-tang; 4. Steps taken to obtain information of enemy's position; 5. Description of the position of the northern and Taku forts; 6. Capture of Sinho; 7. Correspondence of Lord Elgin and the governor-general of Chih-li; 8. Capture of the north Taku forts; 9. Advance to Tien-tsin; 10. March towards Pekin; 11. My prison life; 12. Our prison life; 13. Proceedings of the allied armies; 14. Surrender of the bodies; 15. Yuen-ming-yuen; 16. Signature of convention.