Unaware of the history, a few years ago I visited the fort in the Tibetan town of Gyantse only to discover unexpectedly that part was prominently labelled “Anti British Museum” and featured a number of depictions of this invasion.
Quoting Palin [1]
- In 1903, however, on a trumped-up pretext, an army, under Colonel Francis Younghusband, crossed over from India, fought a bloody battle not far from Gyantse in which some 3000 Tibetans died, before storming the fort from which we're looking out and going on, unopposed, as far as Lhasa. The British left four years later, leaving behind in Gyantse a post office and a public school. All that remains now is the Anti-British Museum, housed in the dzong.
In the circumstances seems reasonable that British visitors (like me) should be made to feel more than a bit uncomfortable about this episode.
Quoting Palin [1]
- In 1903, however, on a trumped-up pretext, an army, under Colonel Francis Younghusband, crossed over from India, fought a bloody battle not far from Gyantse in which some 3000 Tibetans died, before storming the fort from which we're looking out and going on, unopposed, as far as Lhasa. The British left four years later, leaving behind in Gyantse a post office and a public school. All that remains now is the Anti-British Museum, housed in the dzong.
In the circumstances seems reasonable that British visitors (like me) should be made to feel more than a bit uncomfortable about this episode.
[1] https://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-3805