Hello out there ,
The company Altores Studio have certainly made a big splash with the releases that they have done this year , a very new company from Russia with a skilled team behind them working away to give us releases that are both unusual and different including 54, 75 and busts.
One of these was the butterfly swordsman which I reviewed here and on social media
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/butterfly-swordsman-from-altores-studio.78799/
Announced by Altores recently (http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/altores-studio.79114/)we now have a companion figureif you wish in the shape of this:
There were 2 so called Opium Wars
First Opium War:
March 18, 1839 - August 29, 1842.
Also called the First Anglo-Chinese War.
Casualties:
69 British troops, approximately 18,000 Chinese soldiers.
Results:
Britain gets trade rights, access to five treaty ports, and Hong Kong.
Second Opium War:
October 23, 1856 - October 18, 1860.
Also known as the Arrow War or the Second Anglo-Chinese War, although France joined in.
Casualties:
Western powers, approximately 2,900 killed or wounded.
China, 12,000 - 30,000 killed or wounded.
Results:
Britain gets southern Kowloon. Western powers get additional land rights, trade privileges. China's Summer Palaces looted and burned.
The British also had other concerns at the time, however. In 1857, the Sepoy or Indian Mutiny spread across the Indian subcontinent, drawing the British Empire's attention away from China. Once the Indian Revolt was put down,Britain once again turned its eyes to the Qing.
Meanwhile, in February of 1856, a French Catholic missionary named Auguste Chapdelaine was arrested in Guangxi. He was charged with preaching Christianity outside of the treaty ports, in violation of the Sino-French agreements, and also collaborating with the Taiping rebels. Father Chapdelaine was sentenced to beheading, but his jailers beat him to death before the sentence was carried out. Though the missionary was tried according to Chinese law, as provided for in the treaty, the French government would use this incident as an excuse to join with the British in the Second Opium War.
Between December of 1857 and mid-1858, the Anglo-French forces captured Guangzhou, Guangdong, and the Taku Forts near Tientsin (Tianjin). China surrendered, and was forced to sign the punitive Treaty of Tientsin in June of 1858.
This new treaty allowed the UK, France, Russia, and the US to establish official embassies in Peking (Beijing); it opened eleven additional ports to foreign traders; it established free navigation for foreign vessels up the Yangtze River; it allowed foreigners to travel into interior China; and once again China had to pay war indemnities - this time, 8 million taels of silver to France and Britain. (One tael is equal to roughly 37 grams.) In a separate treaty, Russia took the left bank of the Amur River from China. In 1860, the Russians would found their major Pacific Ocean port city of Vladivostok on this newly-acquired land.
Although the Second Opium War seemed to be over, the Xianfeng Emperor's advisers convinced him to resist the western powers and their ever-harsher treaty demands. As a result, the Xianfeng Emperor refused to ratify the new treaty. His consort, Concubine Yi, was particularly strong in her anti-western beliefs; she would later become the Empress Dowager Cixi .
When the French and British attempted to land military forces numbering in the thousands at Tianjin, and march on Beijing (supposedly just to establish their embassies, as set out in the Treaty of Tientsin), the Chinese initially did not allow them to come ashore. However, the Anglo-French forces made it to land and on September 21, 1860, wiped out a Qing army of 10,000. On October 6, they entered Beijing, where they looted and burned the Emperor's Summer Palaces.
The Second Opium War finally ended on October 18, 1860, with the Chinese agreeing to a revised version of the Treaty of Tianjin. In addition to the provisions listed above, the revised treaty mandated equal treatment for Chinese who converted to Christianity, the legalization of opium trading, and Britain also received parts of coastal Kowloon, on the mainland across from Hong Kong Island.
medal showing clasps awarded
Books are available here are a couple that are worth looking at
:
Continued in next post
Nap
The company Altores Studio have certainly made a big splash with the releases that they have done this year , a very new company from Russia with a skilled team behind them working away to give us releases that are both unusual and different including 54, 75 and busts.
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/butterfly-swordsman-from-altores-studio.78799/
Announced by Altores recently (http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/altores-studio.79114/)we now have a companion figureif you wish in the shape of this:
There were 2 so called Opium Wars
First Opium War:
March 18, 1839 - August 29, 1842.
Also called the First Anglo-Chinese War.
Casualties:
69 British troops, approximately 18,000 Chinese soldiers.
Results:
Britain gets trade rights, access to five treaty ports, and Hong Kong.
Second Opium War:
October 23, 1856 - October 18, 1860.
Also known as the Arrow War or the Second Anglo-Chinese War, although France joined in.
Casualties:
Western powers, approximately 2,900 killed or wounded.
China, 12,000 - 30,000 killed or wounded.
Results:
Britain gets southern Kowloon. Western powers get additional land rights, trade privileges. China's Summer Palaces looted and burned.
The British also had other concerns at the time, however. In 1857, the Sepoy or Indian Mutiny spread across the Indian subcontinent, drawing the British Empire's attention away from China. Once the Indian Revolt was put down,Britain once again turned its eyes to the Qing.
Meanwhile, in February of 1856, a French Catholic missionary named Auguste Chapdelaine was arrested in Guangxi. He was charged with preaching Christianity outside of the treaty ports, in violation of the Sino-French agreements, and also collaborating with the Taiping rebels. Father Chapdelaine was sentenced to beheading, but his jailers beat him to death before the sentence was carried out. Though the missionary was tried according to Chinese law, as provided for in the treaty, the French government would use this incident as an excuse to join with the British in the Second Opium War.
Between December of 1857 and mid-1858, the Anglo-French forces captured Guangzhou, Guangdong, and the Taku Forts near Tientsin (Tianjin). China surrendered, and was forced to sign the punitive Treaty of Tientsin in June of 1858.
This new treaty allowed the UK, France, Russia, and the US to establish official embassies in Peking (Beijing); it opened eleven additional ports to foreign traders; it established free navigation for foreign vessels up the Yangtze River; it allowed foreigners to travel into interior China; and once again China had to pay war indemnities - this time, 8 million taels of silver to France and Britain. (One tael is equal to roughly 37 grams.) In a separate treaty, Russia took the left bank of the Amur River from China. In 1860, the Russians would found their major Pacific Ocean port city of Vladivostok on this newly-acquired land.
Although the Second Opium War seemed to be over, the Xianfeng Emperor's advisers convinced him to resist the western powers and their ever-harsher treaty demands. As a result, the Xianfeng Emperor refused to ratify the new treaty. His consort, Concubine Yi, was particularly strong in her anti-western beliefs; she would later become the Empress Dowager Cixi .
When the French and British attempted to land military forces numbering in the thousands at Tianjin, and march on Beijing (supposedly just to establish their embassies, as set out in the Treaty of Tientsin), the Chinese initially did not allow them to come ashore. However, the Anglo-French forces made it to land and on September 21, 1860, wiped out a Qing army of 10,000. On October 6, they entered Beijing, where they looted and burned the Emperor's Summer Palaces.
The Second Opium War finally ended on October 18, 1860, with the Chinese agreeing to a revised version of the Treaty of Tianjin. In addition to the provisions listed above, the revised treaty mandated equal treatment for Chinese who converted to Christianity, the legalization of opium trading, and Britain also received parts of coastal Kowloon, on the mainland across from Hong Kong Island.
Books are available here are a couple that are worth looking at
:
Continued in next post
Nap
