Original sentence: The members of the Titsingh mission were the last European diplomats to savour the mid-winter splendor of the vast Summer Palace before its destruction by the Lord Elgin's troops during the punative Second Opium War in 1860
Edited sentence: The members of the Titsingh mission were the last European diplomats to savour the mid-winter splendor of the vast Summer Palace before its destruction by the Lord Elgin's troops during the punitive Second Opium War in 1860