. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . second expe-dition got under way as quickly as it was possible to do so. Nor were the commanders at Tien Tsin less apprehensive as to the fate of thoseimprisoned within the walls of the Chinese capital than the people in other parts ofthe world. Constantly arriving messages gave them an idea of the situation atPe
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . second expe-dition got under way as quickly as it was possible to do so. Nor were the commanders at Tien Tsin less apprehensive as to the fate of thoseimprisoned within the walls of the Chinese capital than the people in other parts ofthe world. Constantly arriving messages gave them an idea of the situation atPekin and of the approaching crisis, and kept stirring them to incessant energy. A message received at Tien Tsin July 9th stated that two legations at Pekinwere still uncaptured and that the foreigners still had sufficient food and ammuni-tion. More serious was the news from Sir Claude MacDonald, the British ambassa-dor, which was received at Tien Tsin July 29th and read: We are surrounded by Chinese imperial troops who have fired upon us continu-ously since June 20th. Enemy are enterprising but cowardly. They have four orfive cannon, used mostly for battering purposes. Our casualties are, up to date,forty-four killed and about double that number wounded. We have provisions for. ALLIED PICKETS DRIVING OFF BOXERS. — 505 — about two weeks, but are eating our ponies. If Chinese do not press their attack wecan hold out for some days—say ten—but if they show determination it is a question of four or five, so no time should be lost if a terrible massacre is to be avoided, The Chinese Government, if one exists, has done nothing whatever to help understand that all gates are held by the enemy, but they would not stand anattack by artillery. An easy entrance could be effected by the sluice gate of thecanal, which runs past this legation through the south wall of the Tartar City. These alarming messages caused the foreign commanders to redouble theirefforts to get the second
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