Felice Beato, 1860, 21 August (event) 1864 (published), Signor Beato at the Taku forts in China during the Second Opium War, Book page, Google Books, LL/40644
Felice Beato 1860, 21 August (event) 1864 (published) Signor Beato at the Taku forts in China during the Second Opium War
Book page Google Books D.F. Rennie, The British Arms in North China and Japan: Peking 1860; Kagoshima 1862, (London: John Murray, 1864) p.112.
Writing on the attack on the Taku Forts in China - 21st August 1860
I walked round the ramparts on the west side. They were thickly strewed with dead in the north-west angle thirteen were lying in one group round a gun. Signor Beato was here in great excitement, characterising the group as "beautiful," and begging that it might not be interfered with until perpetuated by his photographic apparatus, which was done a few minutes afterwards. Not far from this group, a tall and very dignified-looking man of between fifty and sixty, stated to be the general who had conducted the defence, was lying dead, his lower jaw shattered by a rifle bullet.
