Dagu

alternative Taku

1. A subdistrict of Binhai district, Tianjin, China.

   With China’s defenses still in an inchoate state of development, British forces seized Guangzhou and the Dagu Forts in northern China, from which they could easily march on Beijing.

   2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China (Foreign Relations / World Politics), New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66

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   On the shore at Ta-ku (on the northern coast of the mouth of the Pei-ho) they were received by Brigadier General Shuang-jui of the Tientsin garrison, and Wen-ch’ien, Ch’ang-lu salt controller.

   [1964, Te-kong Tong, “The Pei-ho Expeditions—An Imperial Game”, in United States Diplomacy in China, 1844-60, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163

   On March 23, MacDonald formally requested that the Foreign Office send two warships to Ta-ku, the nearest port of Peking. The ships were required, he explained, for the protection of British missionaries, since new disturbances were breaking out in Shantung. He supported this appeal by pointing out that the United States was sending one ship to Ta-ku, that Italy had two ships ready to send, and that Germany had the use of her Kiaochow squadron.

   [1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, “British Policy and the Boxer Rising”, in Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 154

   The official said two British warships had been sent to Dagu, the coastal location nearest Beijing, to protect British lives and property. The United States also had sent a warship to Dagu, a response in part to an earlier attack by “secret society” mobs on an American medical mission near Chongjing.

   2017, Robert W. Merry, “China”, in President McKinley: Architect of the American Century (Biography & Autobiography), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 414

   The results of the risk assessment of ECEs in this study indicated that areas at extremely high risk (I level) include Gulin subdistrict in the central part of the TBNA; high risk areas (II level) include Dagu subdistrict in the central region and Haibin subdistrict in the south; areas at moderate risk areas (III level) include Dagang subdistrict in the south and Xinhe subdistrict in the north; and low risk areas (IV level) include Zhongtang town in the south.

   2023, Fanchao Meng, He Huang, Jun Guo, Guoyu Ren, Jialin Zhang, “Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Extreme Cold Events and Their Impacts on Population and Economy in Tianjin Binhai New Area, China”, in Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, volume 32, number 3, →DOI, page 2784, column 2