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must have been dreadful. For whenever they were wounded and fell, the match-lock set fire to their cotton clothes, and I saw several instances of their being literally burnt alive.
33 C.Worswick & J.Spence. Imperial China, Photographs 1850-1912. London, 1979,
p.36 shows a photograph by Felix Beato.
Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 144 reports that "The Tartars and Chinese troops use bows of different sizes and strengths, the Tartars use a peculiar kind of cross-bow, throwing three arrows.."
35 John Henry Gray. Walks in the City of Canton. Hong Kong, 1875, p.527.
36 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 98 reporting the taking of the fort of Tycocktow says "More resistance, however, was offered here than at Chuenpee, for the Chinese were not forced from their ramparts until the boats' crews had gained the summit, and the bayonet and cutlass had clashed with the spear and the broadsword. Several of the assailants received wounds from the cold steel, a rare occurrence in the Chinese war."
37 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 151.
38 Lt. Colonel Fisher, C.B. Personal Narrative of Three Years' Service in China. London 1863. p.383.
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must have been dreadful. For whenever they were wounded and fell, the match- lock set fire to their cotton clothes, and I saw several instances of their being literally burnt alive."
33 C.Worswick & J.Spence. Imperial China, Photographs 1850-1912. London, 1979,
p.36 shows a photograph by Felix Beato.
Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 144 reports that "The Tartars and Chinese troops use bows of different sizes and strengths, the Tartars use a peculiar kind of cross- bow, throwing three arrows.."
35 John Henry Gray. Walks in the City of Canton. Hong Kong, 1875, p.527.
36 Ouchterlony, op. cit., p. 98 reporting the taking of the fort of Tycocktow says "More resistance, however, was offered here than at Chuenpee, for the Chinese were not forced from their ramparts until the boats' crews had gained the summit, and the bayonet and cutlass had clashed with the spear and the broadsword. Several of the assailants received wounds from the cold steel, a rare occurrence in the Chinese war."
37 Mackenzie, op. cit., p. 151.
38 Lt. Colonel Fisher, C.B. Personal Narrative of Three Years' Service in China.
London 1863. p.383.
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