Britain invaded Tibet for the second time between 1903 and 1904. The Tibetan army and civilians led by the 13th Dalai Lama fought back courageously. However, the Dalai Lama was forced to leave Tibet after being defeated, and he traveled to the mainland. He did not return to Lhasa until 1909. In the image, the man riding the horse is You Tai, the Qing dynasty imperial resident in Tibet, who adopted a compromise policy and proposed to the Qing government that “if we want to convince the 13th Dalai Lama, we shall not allow him the freedom to fight and lose, otherwise there will be no end to it.”

Source：Peter Fleming, Bayonets to Lhasa, with introduction by Brian Shaw.Hong Kong, New York: Oxford University Press, 1961, pp. 256-257