Native plan of the attack on the Taku Forts—1860—2nd Opium War—Dennys 1867 map

William Frederick Mayers (1831–1878), Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1839–1900) and Charles King; compiled and edited by Nicholas Belfield Dennys; individual mapmaker not identified, but the source publication notes that "the maps have all been engraved by natives"

William Frederick Mayers, Nicholas Belfield Dennys and Charles King, The Treaty Ports of China and Japan: A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Compiled and edited by N. B. Dennys. London: Trübner and Co.; Hong Kong: A. Shortrede and Co., 1867. First edition.

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