Taku Forts

The Taku forts were taken by assault with the assistance of the naval forces (August 21).

He was present at the capture of the Taku forts, was mentioned in dispatches (ib.

On 16 June 1900 the Taku forts were bombarded and captured to ensure ships could still reach the port.

Seymour selected Taku forts as his target because it is the closer path to Peking.

The Battalion arrived off of the Taku forts (already captured by the allies) on 16 August.

With Harry S. Parkes he negotiated the surrender of the Taku forts.

He urged Keyes to make it back to Admiral Bruce as quickly as possible to persuade him to seize the Taku forts.

On 31 May 1900, she put landing parties ashore which joined other forces in storming the Taku forts and in relieving the foreign legations at Tientsin.

Slaney served with Algerine at the capture of Canton and with Leven at the first battle of the Taku Forts.

Two vessels of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Taku after the Taku forts in China.

He determined that the capture of the Taku forts and the seizure of the Chinese destroyers was the key to the relief of Tientsin and Peking.

After capturing the main Chinese positions, the force rested for six days then attacked again, resulting in the capture of the remaining Taku forts which were pacified by August 21.

As part of the East Asia Squadron during the Boxer Rebellion, the ship made a noteworthy contribution in the Battle of the Taku Forts.

In June 1900, Hansa, along with Hertha, Gefion, and Irene landed detachments of Seebataillone (marines) to seize the Taku Forts.

By October 1860 the British and French had retaken the Taku forts and entered Peking and the Emperor had fled to Jehol.

He commanded the gunboat Gilyak in the Imperial Russian Navy where he distinguished himself during the suppression of Taku Forts during the Boxer Rebellion.

Garnet Wolseley, who was present at the taking of the Taku forts, insists that "The man belonging to the Buffs was either killed, or 'died of drink,' as the Chinese say."

A strong Anglo-French force under Admiral Sir Michael Seymour occupied Canton (December 1857), then cruised north to capture briefly the Taku forts near Tientsin (May 1858).

During the Second Anglo-Chinese War he again displayed great courage and skill and, although seriously wounded in the storming of the Taku forts (21 August 1860), subsequently entered Peking with the victors.

He was further appointed Lieutenant by purchase on 12 October 1860, the day Pekin surrendered to the Allies and engaged in the China war at Sinho and at the taking or Tanku and Taku forts.

He was about to return downstream from Tongku to assist in the attack on the Taku forts, when a young British naval officer in charge of a river tug with stores and ammunition for the besieged troops in Tientsin came aboard.

Early in 1860 he went with his regiment to China to join the Anglo-French expedition and took part in the capture of the Taku forts and the entry into Peking, returning to South Africa to complete his work in Kaffraria (brevet-majority).

Li was impressed with the necessity of strengthening the empire, and while Viceroy of Zhili he raised a large well-drilled and well-armed force, and spent vast sums both in fortifying Port Arthur and the Taku forts and in increasing the navy.

In 1900 in China during the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded a mixture of British, German and Japanese sailors during the capture of the Taku forts, and was promoted Captain and received the Prussian Order of the Crown with swords as a result.

The foreign persecutions ended with the capture of Peking, on 14 August, by the China Relief Expedition, and Monocacy docked at Taku Bar, China, where she remained through the razing of the Taku forts in accordance with the formal settlement signed in September 1901.