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== Summary ==
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After the Qing Government rejected the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Tianjin Treaty of Tianjin] Anglo-French forces tried unsuccessfully to take the Taku Forts in June 1859. In the summer of 1860 a a larger Anglo-French force fromsailed from Hong Kong and captured the port cities of Yantai and Dalian. They then landed north of Tianjin which they captured. There followed a series of battles as the British and French advanced on Peking. The [[Battle of Pa-li-chao]] in September defeated the Chinese finally and the Summer Palace in [[Peking]] was destroyed. The Convention of Peking ratified the Treaty of Tianjin, the opium trade was legalized, China was opened to western merchants and Britain and France were paid a huge indemnity.
11,000 troops under ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hope_Grant General James Hope Grant]''<br>
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'''HM 1st Brigade'''<br>*[[1st Regiment of Foot|HM 1st Royal regimentRegiment]]*[[31st Regiment of Foot|HM 31st Regiment]]*[[15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry|Loodianah Regiment]]<br>
'''2nd Brigade'''
*[[2nd Regiment of Foot|HM 2nd Regiment (Queen's)]]*[[60th Regiment of Foot|HM 60th Regiment]]*[[23rd Punjab Pioneers|15th Punjaub Infantry]]*[[Royal Artillery]], Lt-Col Barry's Battery*[[Royal Artillery]], Capt Desborough's Battery*[[Royal Engineers, Major Fisher's Company
*Royal Engineers, Half No 8 Company
'''3rd Brigade'''
*[[3rd Regiment of Foot|HM 3rd Regiment (Buffs)]]*[[44th Regiment of Foot|HM 44th Regiment]]*[[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|8th Punjaub Infantry]]
'''4th Brigade'''
*|HM 99th Regiment*|HM 67th Regiment*|19th Punjaub Infantry
*Royal Artillery, Capt Mowbray's Battery
*Royal Artillery, Capt Govan's Battery
*Royal Engineers, Major Graham's Company
'''Cavalry Brigade'''
*|1st Dragoon Guards (King's)*|Probyn's Sikh Cavalry*|Fane's Cavalry
*Artillery, Lt-Col Milward's Battery
'''Reserve'''
