The Second Battle of Taku Forts was a failed Anglo-French attempt to seize the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, in June 1859 during the Second Opium War. A chartered American steamship arrived on scene and assisted the French and British in their attempted suppression of the forts.

The Pei-ho's river basin, known as the Hai River today.

Map of the attack on 25 June

A gun battery of the Taku Forts

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