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China: Looting of the Yuan Ming Yuan (Old Summer Palace), Beijing, by Anglo-French forces in 1860

China: Looting of the Yuan Ming Yuan (Old Summer Palace), Beijing, by Anglo-French forces in 1860

The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Dynasty of China, lasting from 1856–1860.