historic harbor

This weekend our class visited a historic harbor. This harbor is now a very small museum. The tour guide taught me the history of the precise area I was walking on. This made what he was saying much more interesting. The tour guide explained how once the British Navy attacked this area in order to obtain control over the land. At the time of the battle the British wanted to capture this harbor because they knew if they could capture Tianjin their chances of taking over Beijing were much higher, because Tianjin is very close to Beijing. . This all took place in the Qing Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, if China lost Beijing, China would be lost.