The Land of the Boxers: Or, China Under the AlliesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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... story of an encounter between a young English subaltern and an American in North China . I fancy the same tale is told of a Colonial in South Africa ; but it is good enough to bear repetition . The very youthful Britisher , chancing to ...
... story of an encounter between a young English subaltern and an American in North China . I fancy the same tale is told of a Colonial in South Africa ; but it is good enough to bear repetition . The very youthful Britisher , chancing to ...
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... the driving competitions . Apropos of the latter corps a story is told of Field Marshal Von Waldersee's introduction to them at the first review he held of British troops at Tientsin . When the horse gunners came thundering down PEKIN 67.
... the driving competitions . Apropos of the latter corps a story is told of Field Marshal Von Waldersee's introduction to them at the first review he held of British troops at Tientsin . When the horse gunners came thundering down PEKIN 67.
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... story houses , and soon reached the famous Legation Street , the quarter in which lie the residences of the Foreign Ministers and the other Europeans in Pekin . We passed along a wide road in good repair , by gateways at which stood ...
... story houses , and soon reached the famous Legation Street , the quarter in which lie the residences of the Foreign Ministers and the other Europeans in Pekin . We passed along a wide road in good repair , by gateways at which stood ...
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... story houses . Above it was a board bearing the inscription , " Hôtel du Nord . " Jumping from our rickshas , we paid off the perspiring coolies , and , walking across a small courtyard , were met by the proprietor and shown to our ...
... story houses . Above it was a board bearing the inscription , " Hôtel du Nord . " Jumping from our rickshas , we paid off the perspiring coolies , and , walking across a small courtyard , were met by the proprietor and shown to our ...
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... stories high , the intervals between them being divided by buttresses . These towers are comparatively fragile , and at the taking of Pekin those attacked suffered considerably from the shell fire of the field guns of the Allies ...
... stories high , the intervals between them being divided by buttresses . These towers are comparatively fragile , and at the taking of Pekin those attacked suffered considerably from the shell fire of the field guns of the Allies ...
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Allies ANDREW LANG army Bombay British officers buildings Canton Chinaman Chinese city Chinese houses close cloth CO.'S STANDARD colony Coloured Plates coolies crowded Crown 8vo Edition England English Essays European fighting fire force foreign French Frontispiece Froude's J. A. garrison gate German Gifford Lectures gilt edges gilt top ground guard guns Gurkhas Haggard's H. R. half-bound harbour hills HISTORY Hong Kong Illus Illustrations Imperial Indian Infantry island Japanese Kowloon land Legation LL.D LONGMANS & CO.'S M.A. Crown 8vo Macao mainland mandarins Maps Max Müller MESSRS miles nation North China palace passed pavilion Pekin Photogravure Portraits Portuguese Punjaub quarters railway regiment rickshas rifles river road Royal Royal Welch Fusiliers Russian Samchun sampans sepoys Shanhaikwan side Sikh soldiers station steamers stood streets Taku temple Text Tientsin tions towers town trations troops villages vols wall Wei-hai-wei
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