In the First Opium War, on January 7, 1841, the British invaders attacked the Humen Outer Dajiao and Shajiao Forts. In the late Qing Dynasty, coastal defense cannons had to be placed on a high platform with a wide field of view in order to shoot far from the ground, and the troops on the platform were arranged to guard it.
During the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French coalition invaded China and was captured by the Anglo-French northern fort at Dagukou. Photographed shortly after the Battle of Dagukou in August 1860, the Qing army's bombed barracks can be seen on the map, and the horses on the left front are the cannons used by the Qing army.
The newly fallen Dagukou Fort, photographed on August 21, 1860. The remains of the Qing army can be seen above, and the fort has been badly burned.
In the corner of the north battery of Dagukou, the French army broke through from then on, august 21, 1860. The ladder was used by the French to capture the fort. The "thorns" of wood cut under the fort must have been used to block the invaders.
After the war, the Takukou Fort was repaired.
Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Kou captured Lushunkou photo. It was taken on November 21, 1894.
The Zhao Beizui Fort in Weihai, occupied by the Japanese During the Sino-Japanese War, photographed by the Japanese on February 24, 1895. Zhao Beizui Fort is the largest in Weihai, with a total of five cannons, three of which appear in the picture, and the battery has been bombed to pieces. In February 1895, the Japanese attacked Weihaiwei and attacked Chinese ships with cannons from the fort.
Two cannons at Weihaiwei Loess Cliff Fort, photographed after the japanese invasion in February 1895. The First and Second Opium Wars, the Sino-Japanese War, were the three largest foreign wars of the late Qing Dynasty, and these forts failed to stop the invaders' hooves.
The "review ship" that Prince Yizhen of the Great Qing Dynasty took when he was inspecting the Great Qing Navy in Tianjin had the word "Shuai" hanging high on it. Photographed in 1886, the ship resembles a fishing boat, more than 20 years after the end of the Second Opium War and less than 10 years after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. After seeing this ship, I felt that the military strength of the Great Qing was worrying.