Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE WORLD’S NAVIES IN THE
BOXER REBELLION

(CHINA 1900)

_Frontispiece_]

THE

WORLD’S NAVIES

IN THE

BOXER REBELLION

(CHINA 1900)

BY
LIEUT. C. C. DIX, R.N.

_With Illustrations_

LONDON
DIGBY, LONG & CO.
18 BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET STREET, E.C.
1905

(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)

CONTENTS

Chap. Page

I. PRELUDE 9

II. THE BOMBARDMENT AND STORMING OF TAKU FORTS 27

III. FIRST SIEGE OF TIENTSIN 46

IV. SEYMOUR’S DASH FOR PEKIN 70

V. RELIEF OF TIENTSIN 95

VI. RELIEF OF SEYMOUR 113

VII. PEI-YANG—SECOND SIEGE OF TIENTSIN 130

VIII. CAPTURE OF TIENTSIN NATIVE CITY 155

IX. SCENES IN THE CAPTURED CITY: TIENTSIN LOOTED 176

X. SUMMARY: FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR ADVANCE:
FIGHTING AROUND TIENTSIN 193

XI. ADVANCE TO PEKIN 211

XII. CAPTURE OF PEKIN AND RELIEF OF LEGATIONS 228

XIII. STORY OF THE SIEGE OF THE LEGATIONS 247

XIV. THE TROOPS COMPARED 270

XV. RETURN OF NAVAL BRIGADE—PEH-TANG AND SHAN-HAI-KWAN 301

DEDICATED

BY

KIND PERMISSION

TO

The Right Honourable Earl Spencer
K.G., P.C.

(_Late First Lord of the Admiralty_)

IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS HAVING GIVEN ME A NOMINATION
FOR THE NAVY, AND FOR THE GENEROUS PATRONAGE
OF HIS LORDSHIP, AND HIS LATE FATHER, TO MY
GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER, WHO
HAD THE HONOUR MEDICALLY TO ATTEND
THE HOUSEHOLD AT ALTHORP PARK,
FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.