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![The War with China - Capture of Bocca Tigris Forts by the English Squadron - the Attack on North and South Wantung, 1857. 'Encounter, North Wantung, Nankin, South Aminghoy, Hornet, South Wantung, [H.M.S.] Barracouta, Calcutta (flagship), Coromandel'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857. Stock Photo](https://c7.alamy.com/zooms/9/6775e0cc5d7d498686238e3295c289e5/2r8y8py.jpg "The War with China - Capture of Bocca Tigris Forts by the English Squadron - the Attack on North and South Wantung, 1857. 'Encounter, North Wantung, Nankin, South Aminghoy, Hornet, South Wantung, [H.M.S.] Barracouta, Calcutta (flagship), Coromandel'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857. Stock Photo")
![Plan of the Attack on the Forts and Batteries of Canton, Nov.12 and 13, 1856, (1857). British naval officer: '...we have had a job to take some forts called the Bocca Tigris, containing 500 of the largest guns I ever saw - none less than ten inches bore, and some of the brass ones thirteen inches. We towed the Nankin into action, the [H.M.S.] Barracouta towed the Calcutta (the flag-ship). After two hours' firing we manned boats of squadron, and took the two large forts on Wanlong Island, containing 100 guns each. The moment the men got on shore the Chinese took to their boats, and those the bo Stock Photo](https://c7.alamy.com/zooms/9/336a807e24f64ca8b74d3bf1b39252fb/2r8y8p3.jpg "Plan of the Attack on the Forts and Batteries of Canton, Nov.12 and 13, 1856, (1857). British naval officer: '...we have had a job to take some forts called the Bocca Tigris, containing 500 of the largest guns I ever saw - none less than ten inches bore, and some of the brass ones thirteen inches. We towed the Nankin into action, the [H.M.S.] Barracouta towed the Calcutta (the flag-ship). After two hours' firing we manned boats of squadron, and took the two large forts on Wanlong Island, containing 100 guns each. The moment the men got on shore the Chinese took to their boats, and those the bo Stock Photo")
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