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Title: Reports on military operations in South Africa and China
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Adjutant-General’s Office
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902
Publisher: Washington : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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eason for thefailure of the Chinese to exterminate the foreigners. The half-hearted offense must be due to cowardice or to a lack of in-tent really to destroy the legations and kill the foreigners. Iam inclined to believe that both causes operated. The cow-ardice of the Chinese is well known; the absence of the neces-sary intent may be explained by a disinclination of the gov-ernment to oppose the legationers except so far as to divertattention from itself. The foreigners fought bravely, endured many hardships,and suffered untold miseries in anticipation of* the barbarousdeath which seemed inevitable; and though much has beenand will be told of this side of the siege, it nevertheless remainsthat there were few new developments of any importance tothe military world. SIEGE OF THE PEITANG. The Peitang, or the French mission, is situated just withinthe west wall of the imperial city, and is, therefore, entirelyseparated from the legation quarter. Here all were Catholics, SIEGE of PE-TANG
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MILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. 457 against whom the Chinese were particularly active becauseof the deep root Catholicism was taking in China, due to theirmethods in directing attention to raising, educating, andChristianizing the Chinese children. Within the large com-pounds were located all the buildings pertaining to such aninstitution—cathedral, convent, orphanage, dwelling houses,schoolrooms, etc. The regular contingent consisted of 600people, including priests, sisters, Christian Chinese men,women, and children, but the influx of refugees just prior tothe siege swelled the number to nearly 3,000 souls. Oneyears supplies for 600 people had just been laid in, and assoon as Christians began to pour in on them an effort wasmade to gather in more supplies, but interference of theChinese rendered it futile. On the 1st of June, 30 French, and on the 10th, 10 Italiansoldiers were dispatched to defend the mission. Beginning-work after the arrival of the French, barricades were built at(a
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