2-979-552 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War with China - Interior of the Dutch Folly Fort, 1857. Second Opium War. 'The Folly is in beautiful order, everything in its proper place; great credit is due to the two lieutenants in command. The blue-jackets have adorned it with some frescoes of their own designing. One represents a T. P. Cooke-looking sailor pointing to the city, with the legend attached, "This way to the breach"; and another direction points out "The way to honour and glory." A Chinese prisoner inside, who was taken at the Bogue, and retained to be cured by the doctor, his leg having had to be amputated, has made great friends with his kind but rather rough nurses in the Folly'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.