c. 1877 - Fountain Gate in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) photo

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	Photo by Thomas Child

c. 1877 - Fountain Gate in the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan)

During the Second Opium War (1860), British High Commissioner to China, Lord Elgin,
ordered the destruction of the palace, which was then carried out by his troops.

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