Significant1856 – 1860 · 4 years

Second Opium War (Arrow War)

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China · Beijing · Guangzhou

Estimated casualties

50Ksingle estimate · no range published

British-French campaign forcing China to open further trade ports.

Belligerents3

Qing Dynasty
United Kingdom
France

ON THE MAPQing DynastyBritish Empire (1837)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 7

Battle of Canton1856
Battle of Fatshan Creek1857
Battle of Guangzhou1857
Battle of Dagu Forts1858
Battle of Dagu Forts1859
Battle of Chang-chia-wan1860
Battle of Dagu Forts1860

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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