Use the Passage Below to Answer All Parts of the Question

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Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
The story of the war of 1858, between the Chinese on the one side and the French and
English on the other, has already been recited. Sufficient reference has been made to the terms of the treaty, to the war indemnity extorted by the allies from the Imperial Government, and to the other circumstances with which the conflict was concluded. It might well appear that the humiliation of the Chinese Governities turned their attention once more to the suppression of the rebellious Tai-Pings, who had for some time been in defiance of Imperial authority. The Government succeeded at this juncture in enlisting the sympathies and services of that remarkable personage, Colonel Charles George Gordon, of the Royal Engineers, destined from the campaign upon which he now entered to be known to the world as Chinese Gordon. . . . Gordon soon succeeded in organizing a formidable army, incorporating with his forces the command of the American Colonel Ward, who had already been engaged against the Tai-Pings. An invasion of the rebellious district was now begun, and Gordon's army was constantly victorious. City after city in the Tai-Ping country was taken, but it was not until 1864 that the insurgents were finally brought to submission.
John Clark Ridpath, American educator and historian, in Cyclopaedia of Universal History, Nineteenth Century, 1890
(A) Identify the "war of 1858" and explain ONE of the "humiliations" the Chinese suffered under the treaty.
(B) Describe the reason that Ridpath gives for the ultimate defeat of the Taiping rebellion.
(C) Explain how the author's historical situation might limit the usefulness of this source.

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