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In the Treaty of Tianjin, the Qing court agreed to all Western demands, including the payment of indemnities and the acceptance of foreign diplomats at the imperial court in Beijing. Because neither Qing nor Western diplomats discussed the opium trade, the treaty effectively liberalized it.
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Negotiations centered around the release of the prisoners. The talks failed and on 11 October engineers threw up works and batteries to break through the walls of Peking. Everything was ready that evening when at 11.30 pm the gate opened and the city surrendered.
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The aim of the Anglo-French expedition was to compel the Chinese government at Beijing to observe the trade treaties signed between their governments at Tianjin in 1858, which included allowing the British to continue the opium trade in China. Lieutenant General
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with a cavalry screen and when they reached Chang-Kia-Wan they met a large Chinese army with a five-mile front. There was a skirmish between cavalry, then with the allied artillery silencing the Chinese artillery. The Chinese army scattered and retired.
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on 21 August 1860 had opened up the river route to Beijing. The Chinese authorities at the fort had capitulated all 22 forts along the river as far as Tianjin, including that town.
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was even discussed, as proposed by Elgin to discourage the Qing Empire from using kidnapping as a bargaining tool, and to exact revenge for the mistreatment of their prisoners.
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Two days later, on 20 September the cavalry discovered the Chinese army in a strong position in front of a canal connecting Beijing with the Hai River, with two bridges at
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Narrative of the war with China in 1860; to which is added the account of a short residence with the Tai-ping rebels at Nanking and a voyage from thence to Hankow (1862)
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The combined Anglo-French force marched in a leisurely manner from the Taku Forts, with the French on one side of the river, the British on the other.
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ordered the Summer Palaces be burnt down, which started on 18 October without the French, whose commander opposed the move. The destruction of the
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The negotiators, led by Grant under a flag of truce, were captured by the Qing forces which led to an immediate cessation of negotiations.
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The French commander Cousin-Montauban was later awarded the title of "Count of Palikao" and a decade later, was made the 31st
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on the morning of 21 September 1860. It allowed Western forces to take the capital
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was reached on 1 September 1860 and negotiations were opened with Beijing.
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The Anglo-French force had been trying for two years to get to
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de Saint-Amand, Imbert; Martin, Elizabeth Gilbert (1912).
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and the surviving diplomatic prisoners had been freed,
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The Anglo-French forces entered Beijing and sacked the
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