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| Taku Forts | |||||||||
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 View looking north from the gun platform. | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 大沽炮台 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 大沽砲臺 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Dagu batteries | ||||||||
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| Peiho Forts | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 白河碉堡 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 白河碉堡 | ||||||||
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The Taku Forts or Dagu Forts, also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River (Peiho River) estuary in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km (37 mi) southeast of the Tianjin urban center.[1]
- ^ Edward Jewitt Wheeler; Isaac Kaufman Funk; William Seaver Woods (1900). The Literary Digest. pp. 68–69.