The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire in 1860. == Background == On 18 October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, the British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Peking.
The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire in 1860. == Background == On 18 October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, the British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Peking.
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