On Active Service with the Chinese Regiment: A Record of the Operations of the First Chinese Regiment in North China from March to October 1900 |
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On Active Service with the Chinese Regiment: A Record of the Operations of ... Arthur Alison Stuart Barnes No preview available - 2015 |
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13th July 15th September 1st Chinese Regiment 1st Madras Pioneers advance Alfred Gaselee Allies ammunition arrived Arsenal attack Boxers bridge British officers camp Captain Barnes Captain Dent Captain Hill Captain Watson carts cavalry CHAPTER CHINA EXPEDITIONARY FORCE Colonel Bower Colour-Sergeant column command Company coolies detachment Dorward doubt enemy enemy's escort fighting Forbidden City French Germans going ground halted heard heavy fire Ho-hsi-wu Hong-Kong Artillery Hong-Kong regiment houses Infantry Japanese junks kaoliang killed at Tungchow large number Lieutenant Bray Lieutenant Layard looting Major Bruce Major Pereira Major St John Matou miles Mud Parapet Mud Wall Naval Brigade never night orders owing party Peiho Peking retirement rifle river Royal Artillery Royal Marine Royal Welsh Fusiliers Russians seemed seen sent September 1900 Sergeant Settlement shell shot side snipers soldiers soon Taku road Taotai things Tientsin city Tongku troops Tsao-miao-tze village Wei-hai-wei Yangtsun yards
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Page 139 - ... bagpipes, they seemed to play as well as any Scotchman. They created a furore, and you could see their jet-black eyes gleaming with joy at such a reception. The pipers remained in the courtyard, playing as delightfully as Scotch tunes permit, until the 1st Bengal Lancers, the 7th Rajputs, the Pathans, and at last the Wei-hai-wei Regiment, all passed through, all received with thundering cheers, moderated slightly towards the Chinese Regiment, for it...
Page 209 - Hong-Kong regiment, directed on the various points from which the enemy were harassing the retirement, the Fusiliers and American Marines were withdrawn with very slight loss and formed up behind the Mud Parapet.
Page 208 - Regiment, who said he had been sent back with news that his regiment were in a very exposed position, which from his description I made out to be near the French Settlement, and that they had lost heavily, their Colonel, amongst others, being mortally wounded. He said he had been ordered to ask for reinforcements, and I directed 100 of the Naval Brigade, under Lieutenant Fhillimore, RN, to proceed to their assistance.
Page 208 - The naval guns were all this time making splendid practice, keeping down the fire from the city walls, and we were anxiously waiting for the sound of the explosion which would tell that the Japanese sappers had reached the city gate and blown it in. Shortly after I PM I received the following note from the Japanese chief staff officer : — " Mon General, — Nos soldats sont deja entres dans la cite.
Page 180 - British junks going up and down. This arrangement was plainly not in keeping with the usual excellence of the Indian Field Post Office; so towards the end of September a regular system of mule-daks was arranged, to run twice a week.
Page 206 - Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and the American Marines, moved forward and lined the Mud Parapet west of the Arsenal, the gth American Infantry being also brought forward under the parapet as support. The reserve, consisting of two companies...
Page 196 - His men, scarcely inured to discipline, might either break their formation, or give way to disloyalty. Happily, the battalion proved both trustworthy and courageous ; standing its ground as firmly as seasoned troops could have done, it emerged from its baptism of fire in a highly creditable manner. The fighting appears, too, to have been pretty sharp while it lasted ; the regiment had five casualties, while the assailants left thirty killed behind them when they fled. We have real proof at last,...
Page 207 - ... the British on the left, the centre of the attack being the South Gate. Owing to the attack being pushed on somewhat too hurriedly in the centre, the Fusiliers and American Marines had to move forward rather too quickly under a heavy fire to get into position on the Japanese left.
Page 153 - In this affair, of which the most charitable thing that can be said is that it was...
Page 207 - Hong-Kong regiment, who up to this time had been acting as escort to the guns, to take up a favourable position at a bend in the Mud Parapet, about one mile from the Arsenal, to meet any attack. They had no difficulty in repulsing this threatened attack with the aid of two Maxim guns sent to assist...