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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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e Belgian consul had heard of their plight, andorganized a relief expedition which went to the rescue ofthe refugees. They found the women nude, the childrenlimped, with their clothing torn into shreds, the men werealmost exhausted from fatigue and weariness, and therewas not a single person in the entire group that was notinjured or wounded and in dire need of medical help. Of the other party no oneever returned to Tien Tsin to tell the tale of the overland flight. The mutilatedbody of the wife of one of the engineers was found floating down the river and takenfrom the water. It told the story of the whole party. Other murders of Europeans, mostly missionaries, were reported at Pekin fromall parts of the country. To add to the uncertainty of the situation the Dowager Empress had left Pekinand taken up her imperial residence at some other place. Remonstrances by the ambassadors were answered with insulting impudence bythe remaining officials, who declined to assume any responsibility.
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A BOXER. — 489 — On June 6th, however, Prince Ching made a frank statement to the foreign repre-sentatives. He feared that the Celestial government was not able to cope with theBoxer movement, since it expressed the popular and universal feeling of the popula-tion. The railway from Tien Tsin to Pekin, he said, was guarded by 6,000 imperialsoldiers, but the loyalty of the tr.oops was problematical and their efficiency in acombat with the overwhelming number of the well-trained Boxer forces in stillgreater doubt. Prince Ching regretted that he could not vouchsafe the life or prop-erty of any foreigner in Pekin, and with the Dowager Empress ill-advised, the officialsin the most important departments in league with the disturbers, he was unable toremedy the evil, although he fully realized that by his own admission he would onlyhasten foreign intervention. The interview with Prince Ching was important from one standpoint only: itserved to impress the diplomats at Pekin that henceforth

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