传教士与远征军——法国传教士艾嘉略第二次鸦片战争亲历记

法国巴黎外方传教会传教士艾嘉略,于1860年随英法联军侵略中国期间,充任翻译和顾问。他亲自记述了英法联军自香港湾发兵,从天津攻入北京,焚掠圆明园,迫使清政府签订《北京条约》的全过程。战后,他又在不平等条约的保护下,自北京返回四川。西方在第二次鸦片战争中,所获得的并非仅仅是军事、经济和政治利益,也包括宗教利益。

Missionaries and Expeditionary Armies--French Missionary Delamarre in the Second Opium War

Missionary Louis Charles Delamarre was a member from the Society of Mission Estrangers in France. In 1860, he served as an interpreter and consultant for the Anglo-French force. He wrote down the whole invasion event of how the British and French joined forces gathered in Hong Kong, captured Beijing after an assault on Tianjin, looted and set fire on the Garden of Perfect Splendor, and forced the Qing emperor to sign the Convention of Beijing in the end. After the Second Opium War, under the protection of the unequal treaty, he returned to Sichuan from Beijing. The benefits that Western powers gained from the Second Opium War are religious as well as military, economic and political.