 | Herbert Wrigley Wilson - 1898 - 520 pages
...and only waited the signal to dash in. The landing party numbered 3000 men, and was composed of 1600 sailors and 1400 soldiers. At three in the morning...Courbet had, before the declaration, ascended the River Min, on which stands the city of Foochow, where was the most important of the Chinese naval arsenals.... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1901 - 766 pages
...China toward the Black Flags on the Tonquin frontier, France began hostilities against China. Without a previous declaration of war, the port of Kelung, in the Island of Formosa, was forcibly seized on August 6. Nine Prenoh days later China declared war on France. Before this declaration... | |
 | Edwin Emerson - 1906 - 562 pages
...China toward the Black Flags on the Tonquin frontier, France began hostilities against China. Without a previous declaration of war, the port of Kelung, in the Island of Formosa, was forcibly seized on August 6. Nine days later China declared war on France. Before this declaration... | |
 | Edwin Emerson, Jr. - 1910 - 590 pages
...China toward the Black Flags on the Tonquin frontier, France began hostilities against China. Without a previous declaration of war, the port of Kelung, in the Island of Formosa, was forcibly seized on August 6. Nine days later China declared war on France. Before this declaration... | |
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... The Legationers had to flee. The Japanese Government obtained reparation for the outrage. Count Ito was sent to Pekin to effect a permanent arrangement regarding Korea. Provoked by the leniency of China toward the Black Flags on the Tonquin frontier,... 