Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 September 1828 – 21 June 1901) was a Royal Navy officer.
 As a junior officer, he took part in the Cape Frontier War of 1851 and then saw action at the Battle of Canton in December 1857 and the Battle of Taku Forts in May 1858 during Second Opium War.
 Once promoted to flag officer rank, he acted as Second-in-Command of the Fleet at the bombardment of Alexandria in July 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War.
 He went on to be First Naval Lord in September 1891 but in that role took a relaxed view of the size of the Fleet and did not see the need for a large shipbuilding effort on the scale envisaged by some of his colleagues, such as Admiral Sir Frederick Richards and Admiral Sir John Fisher who were concerned about French and German naval expansion.
The First Battle of Taku Forts was the first invasion of the Anglo-French alliance against the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, on 20 May 1858, during the Second Opium War.
The Second Battle of Taku Forts was an Anglo-French attack against the Taku Forts along the Hai River in Tianjin, China, in June 1859 during the Second Opium War.
 A chartered American steamship arrived on scene and assisted the French and British in their attempted suppression of the forts.
HMS "Coromandel" was a wooden paddle dispatch vessel of the Royal Navy.
 The ship was called "Tartar" before its purchase by the Navy in 1855, and was sold out of service in 1866.
 She served in the Arrow War (1856–1860) in China, firing the first shot of the war on 23 October 1856 during the capture of Canton.
 She later served in the Battle of Fatshan Creek (1857), and the First and Third Battles of the Taku Forts in 1858 and 1860.
The Third Battle of Taku Forts was an engagement of the Second Opium War, part of the British and French 1860 expedition to China.
 It took place at the Taku Forts (also called Peiho Forts) near Tanggu District (Wade-Giles: Pei Tang-Ho), approximately 60 kilometers (36 mi.)
 southeast of the city of Tianjin (Tientsin).
Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay, GCB (23 August 1827 – 4 May 1916) was a Royal Navy officer and politician.
 After seeing action in 1842 during the First Opium War, he went ashore with the Naval Brigade and took part in the defence of Eupatoria in November 1854 and the Siege of Sevastopol in Spring 1855 during the Crimean War.
 He also took part in the Battle of Taku Forts in August 1860 during the Second Opium War.
 As a politician, he became Member of Parliament for Wick and later for Ripon.
 He was sent to the Mediterranean in July 1878 to take control of Cyprus and to occupy it in accordance with decisions reached at the Congress of Berlin.
 In a highly political appointment, he was made First Naval Lord in March 1886 when the Marquis of Ripon became First Lord of the Admiralty but had to stand down just five months later when William Gladstone's Liberal Government fell from power in August 1886.
Field Marshal Sir John Michel GCB, PC (1 September 1804 – 23 May 1886) was a British Army officer.
 He commanded the 6th Regiment of Foot during the Eighth Xhosa War in 1851 and served as Chief of Staff of the British Army's Turkish contingent during the Crimean War in 1854 before transferring to India where he commanded the Malwa Field Force which pursued Tatya Tope in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny.
 He then commanded the 1st Division at the Battle of Taku Forts in August 1860 during the Second Opium War and took part in the burning of the Old Summer Palace at Peking in October 1860 as a reprisal for the torture and murder of British prisoners before being appointed Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong in 1861.
 He later commanded the forces in British North America playing a key role in the organization of the militia volunteers in resistance to the Fenian raids invasions in 1866.
 His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief of Ireland in 1875.
Field Marshal Robert Cornelius Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (6 December 1810 – 14 January 1890) was an Indian Army officer.
 He fought in the First Anglo-Sikh War and the Second Anglo-Sikh War before seeing action as chief engineer during the second relief of Lucknow in March 1858 during the Indian Mutiny.
 He also served in the Second Opium War as commander of the 2nd division of the expeditionary force which took part in the Battle of Taku Forts in August 1860, the entry to Peking in September 1860 and the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in October 1860.
 He subsequently led the punitive expedition to Abyssinia July 1867, defeating the Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia with minimal loss of life among his own forces and rescuing the hostages of Tewodros.
The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the French Empire against the Qing dynasty of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 April 1840 – 2 March 1929) was a Royal Navy officer.
 As a junior officer he served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.
 He then took part in the sinking of the war-junks, the Battle of Canton and the Battle of Taku Forts during the Second Opium War and then saw action again at the Battle of Cixi during the Taiping Rebellion.

Question: The war that included The First Battle of Taku Forts took place in what years?
Answer: 1856 to 1860