Definition of "Dagu"

On March 23, MacDonald formally requested that the Foreign Office send two warships to Ta-ku, the nearest port of Peking. The ships were required, he explained, for the protection of British missionaries, since new disturbances were breaking out in Shantung. He supported this appeal by pointing out that the United States was sending one ship to Ta-ku, that Italy had two ships ready to send, and that Germany had the use of her Kiaochow squadron.]

, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, page 154

With China’s defenses still in an inchoate state of development, British forces seized Guangzhou and the Dagu Forts in northern China, from which they could easily march on Beijing.

2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China‎ (Foreign Relations / World Politics), New York: Penguin Press, page 66

The official said two British warships had been sent to Dagu, the coastal location nearest Beijing, to protect British lives and property. The United States also had sent a warship to Dagu, a response in part to an earlier attack by “secret society” mobs on an American medical mission near Chongjing.

2017, Robert W. Merry, “China”, in President McKinley: Architect of the American Century‎ (Biography & Autobiography), Simon & Schuster, page 414