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The following account is taken from many sources, including Alan Harfield, British and Indian Armies on the China Coast, 1785-1985, Farnham, Surrey, A. and J. Partnership, 1990; Geoffrey Robley Sayer, Hong Kong 1862-1919, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1975; and G. B. Endacott, A History of Hong Kong. George MacDonald Fraser provides accurate historical background in his Flashman and the Dragon, London, Collins Harvill, 1985.
See in Alan Harfield, op. cit., p.100, reproduction of The Illustrated London News, "News of the Pei-ho incident reaching Hong Kong, 1859”.
(6) Geoffrey Robley Sayer, op. cit., Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1975,
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"Street Scene in Pekin: A Crowd of Celestials Contemplating the Barbarians – From a Sketch by our Special Artist", double half-page spread sketch by "our special artist", The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 12.
"An-tin Mun, the Gate of Pekin in Our Possession - From a Sketch by our Special Artist", double half-page spread sketch by "our special artist", The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 13.
"The Earl of Elgin's Entrance into Pekin on the 24th of October Last to sign the Treaty of Peace Between G[reat Britain and] China - Sketched by our Special Artist from the An-Tin Gate (Gate of Peace) of the Tartar Quarter", full page double-spread, The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, pp. 20-21.
The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 12, cc. 3-4; p. 13, cc. 1-2.
The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 12, cc. 3-4; p. 13, cc. 2-3.
The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 13, cc. 2-4.
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The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 18, c. 2.
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"The peace with China,” The Illustrated London News, 5 January 1861, p. 18, c. 2.
(15) According to The Illustrated London News, 12 January 1861 (p. 32, c. 1),
Henry Loch was the son of Admiral Loch, R.N., one of whose brothers was an East India Director and another a civilian in the Company's service. "Mr Loch himself was... formerly an officer in the Bengal cavalry, but has retired from