The Land of the Boxers: Or, China Under the AlliesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 307 páginas |
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... stands the town . It lies about four miles from the mainland , of which a few hundred square miles has been leased to England . The harbour is sheltered to the south by the hills on the coast , to the north by the island . It affords ...
... stands the town . It lies about four miles from the mainland , of which a few hundred square miles has been leased to England . The harbour is sheltered to the south by the hills on the coast , to the north by the island . It affords ...
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... stands a tall stone building ; near it is the Taku Pilots ' Club , their houses , comfortable bungalows , close at hand . Between flat , marshy shores the river winds , its banks crowded with mud huts . Farther FROM WEI - HAI - WEI TO ...
... stands a tall stone building ; near it is the Taku Pilots ' Club , their houses , comfortable bungalows , close at hand . Between flat , marshy shores the river winds , its banks crowded with mud huts . Farther FROM WEI - HAI - WEI TO ...
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... stand it no longer and the few survivors fled in the friendly darkness . For that brave exploit , the Subhedar Major of the corps now wears the Star of the Indian Empire . From the mud walls of that village , scarce two hundred yards ...
... stand it no longer and the few survivors fled in the friendly darkness . For that brave exploit , the Subhedar Major of the corps now wears the Star of the Indian Empire . From the mud walls of that village , scarce two hundred yards ...
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... stands a grim memento of another outburst of fanaticism against the hated foreigner - the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral , destroyed by the Chinese in 1870. The city itself is like unto all other Celestial cities . Narrow lanes ...
... stands a grim memento of another outburst of fanaticism against the hated foreigner - the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral , destroyed by the Chinese in 1870. The city itself is like unto all other Celestial cities . Narrow lanes ...
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... stands in the broad , tree - shaded Victoria Road . Next to it is the Gordon Hall , a handsome structure famous as the refuge of the women and children during the bombardment . It contains a theatre and a public library , and is the ...
... stands in the broad , tree - shaded Victoria Road . Next to it is the Gordon Hall , a handsome structure famous as the refuge of the women and children during the bombardment . It contains a theatre and a public library , and is the ...
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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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