Definition of "Taku"

The success with which Yeh had for years disregarded the Nanking Treaty in.the South, naturally encouraged the Mandarins in the North to signalize their disregard of the Tientsin Treaty by their action at Taku (June 25, 1859) which permanently injured British prestige in China.

1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎, London: Luzac & Company, page 318

At Tangku and Taku, following withdrawal of the Chinese troops, the threat to the main line of Japanese military communications had been removed. Japanese patrols began to move freely in Tientsin.

1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China‎, New York: Macmillan Company, pages 34–35

Tientsin had no consequential defense works, but there were about 1,100 sailors and marines of various nationalities in the settlement who, during the few days previous, had been sent up from war-vessels in the Port at Taku, sixty miles away.

1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920‎, New York: Macmillan Company, page 48

As part of the British offensive in the north of China, they seized the strategically important Taku Forts at the mouth of the Peiho River.

2017, Michael Ashcroft, VICTORIA CROSS HEROES‎, volume II, page 77