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interference with the merchant__
ships of one neutral tower (Germany).
4.
The French Consul at
Hong Kong, and the Captain of
French man-of-war
here
a
man-of-war who is now
were with me
today. They
have no idea of when or
how
Admiral Courbet will strike the first blow. However, as he has very few troops on board his.
- squadron, he cannot make a
descent on
any large scale.
Moreover, all who Know China.
are
agreed that little impression
can
can be made
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the Chinese Court
and Government without marching
LeKing; and that a march on
on
Peking would
Mou
require
an
army of at least thirty thousand
It required
(30,000)
men
an
army of twenty thousand (20000). men in 1860, when the Chinese
were not
nearly
00
strong
or do
well prepared for war as now. It will further be recollested that the sharp and bitter winter of North China, and the freezing up of the rivers, renders it
impossible
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