China/United Kingdom: The King's Dragoon Guards engaged with Tartar cavalry near Peking, 21 September 1860. Engraving from 'The Illustrated London News', 22 December 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. It resulted in a second defeat for the Qing dynasty and led to the forced legalisation of the opium trade. More unequal treaties meant more territorial losses for China.

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