America in the China Relief Expedition

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Hudson-Kimberly publishing company Subjects: Americans China China Relief Expedition/ (1900-1901) Beijing (China) United States History / Asia / General History / Asia / China Travel / Asia / China Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: During the following eleven days our marines were allowed, for the most part, to rest and recuperate as far as possible while performing guard duty, and exposed to more or less artillery fire from the Chinese City, and occasional "sniping" from different directions. The physical condition of the men and their morale were good; there were none on the sick-list except the wounded. On July 9th an attack was made by the allied forces on the Chinese right flank, in which the Americans and Japanese sailors joined and entered the arsenal together. The Americans suffered no losses, though subjected to considerable artillery fire. On this, as on other occasions, the gallantry of our troops was observed and praised by three different nations. The following letters are from English officers: "tientsin, July 10, 1900. "Dear Major Waller: "The officers who were with the detachment of my regiment that were dragging the guns yesterday asked me to write and thank you for the support you gave them yesterday by keeping down the enemy's fire while they were crossing an exposed place. Their opinion is that had it not been for the action by you and your men, they would have had a good many casualties. "Please accept my sincere thanks, and believe me, " Yours sincerely, H. Bowbrs." "tientsin. July 9, 1900. " Sir, -- I beg leave to thank you for having been good enough to send out a force to coop...

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