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Title: Decisive battles since Waterloo : the most important military events from 1815 to 1887
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) Battles Military history Military art and science Naval battles Naval history Naval art and science Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons New Rochelle, N.Y. : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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uried beneath theflags that waved over the parapets and embrasures. Theforeign fleet which lay outside the mouth of the river in-cluded thirty vessels as follows : English. Guns 84 Men 700 Vesls Calcutta, French, 11 Pique, 40 270 ( Minnesota Furious, paddle-steamer, 8 220 American < Mississippi 3 Nimrod, despatch Govt, vessel, 6 120 ( Antelope Cormorant, 6 Q8 Russian, 1 Surprise, 6 160 Fury, 8 48 Slaney, gunboat, 5 48 15 Leven, 5 48 English, 15 Bustard, 3 48 Oppossum, 3 48 Staunch, 3 48 Firm, 3 48 Coromandel, 5 45 Hesper, storeship, 15 Vessels. 1909 Total, 30 The answer to the letter was duly received and wasquite in the vein that had been expected. Tan, the HighCommissioner, evidently intended to negotiate withoutfull powers to do so. Then the plenipotentiaries sent anultimatum demanding that a commissioner with full pow-ers should be sent, and positively stating that no otherswould be received. The limit of time for their recep-tion was fixed for May 19th, and in case the Chinese
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184 DECISIVE BATTLES SINCE WATERLOO. should decline the British offer of occupying the fortstemporarily, force would be employed to take possessionof them. To this letter no reply was received, and ac-cordingly the ships made ready to act. At ten oclock in the forenoon of May 20th, the signalwas displayed for the ships to move into position. TheCormorant, Mitraille and Fusee had been assigned toassail the two forts on the northern bank, while the Nim-rod, Avalanche, and Dragonne were to attack the threeforts on the southern bank and their connecting line ofmud batteries. The scene just before the signal of attackwas hoisted, was an animated one. The Cormorant wasthe ship farthest in advance up the river, where she layimpatiently letting off little puffs of steam as she stood inreadiness to dash through the bamboo barrier, which theChinese had stretched across the river, and face the lineof fire of the forts to which she would be exposed beforereaching her position. The Nimrod was clos

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