. The life of Sir Harry Parkes, sometime Her Majesty's minister to China & Japan. and then to make acombined attack by land and sea on the six forts his It was nearly ten [on the 1st inst] when the P t^tan Admiral came up in Coromandel and took us [GeneralAug. 4 and staff] on board ; and as we moved in, a small swarmof gunboats came steaming out of the fleet at variouspoints, each having boats filled with troops or storesin tow, and took up the stations the Admiral assignedthem. The Admiral then led in slowly, often havingto stop for some stray vessel to come up. The Frenchhad
. The life of Sir Harry Parkes, sometime Her Majesty's minister to China & Japan. and then to make acombined attack by land and sea on the six forts his It was nearly ten [on the 1st inst] when the P t^tan Admiral came up in Coromandel and took us [GeneralAug. 4 and staff] on board ; and as we moved in, a small swarmof gunboats came steaming out of the fleet at variouspoints, each having boats filled with troops or storesin tow, and took up the stations the Admiral assignedthem. The Admiral then led in slowly, often havingto stop for some stray vessel to come up. The Frenchhad also their flotilla, which followed Admiral Hopesdirections also. At about twelve we sighted the Peh- 1 Military Secretary to the Embassy. He had served through the siegeof Sevastopol, the 1856 attack on Canton, and the Mutiny. 2 Private Secretary to Lord Elgin ; now Sir Henry Brougham Loch,, , Governor and High Commissioner of Cape Colony. 3 Hon. J. F. Stuart Wortley, attache to the Embassy. 4 Hon. T. J. Hovell Thurlow, attache to the Embassy; now Lord ll/bMpiyo& xvi THE MARCH TO PEKING 349 tang forts and those of the Peiho also. . At 2 i860Coromandel anchored at about 2000 yards below JEt 32the forts of Peh-tang, the plan being that the troopsshould be landed at this point, wade across a mud flatto the shore, and take the forts in reverse as the gun-boats moved up in front. As we approached the fortshoisted their flags, and a small force of about 100cavalry turned out on a road or raised causeway whichwe concluded formed the line of communication betweenthese forts and those of the Peiho, distant about sixor seven miles. The object of coming to Peh-tang was,first, to obtain a spot where our landing might beeffected without molestation, and secondly, to take thePeiho forts in reverse by marching from Peh-tang acrossthe country to the rear of the said forts. The flotilla being up, the question [was] how werethe men to be got on shore. We had in
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