The Taeping Rebellion in China:...Soo-Chow, where the Wang was beheaded, 1864. Engraving from a photograph, '...illustrative of the capture of the Chinese town of Soo-Chow by the Imperialist troops, under Major Gordon; and the subsequent destruction of the Taeping or rebel the stockade we see the tents of the Taeping soldiery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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