Harry Parkes
British consul
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Arrow War
- In China: The anti-foreign movement and the second Opium War (Arrow War)
The British consul Harry Parkes sent a fleet to fight its way up to Guangzhou. French forces joined the venture on the plea that a French missionary had been officially executed in Guangxi. The British government sent an expedition under Lord Elgin as plenipotentiary. The Russians and the…
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diplomacy to Japan
- In Empire of Japan: The last shogun
…the arrival of British minister Harry Parkes in 1865, Great Britain in particular began to tire of the difficulties of negotiating with a bakufu which stood between it and the court in Kyōto. It began to consider ways of dealing directly with what it perceived as the centre of ultimate…
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