. 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 . riptionsin Latin, German and Chinese, expressing the regret of the Chinese Emperor for themurder. Payment of indemnity to the various nations, societies and individualsaffected by the Boxer movement. Permanent legation guards at Pekin. Destruc-tion of the Taku forts. Prohibition of import of arms and of their man
. 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 . riptionsin Latin, German and Chinese, expressing the regret of the Chinese Emperor for themurder. Payment of indemnity to the various nations, societies and individualsaffected by the Boxer movement. Permanent legation guards at Pekin. Destruc-tion of the Taku forts. Prohibition of import of arms and of their of foreign troops at all strategic points between Pekin and the of mode of communicating with Yamen in accordance with the wishes ofthe powers. Reform in all trade relations and the issuing of imperial edicts for thenext two years admonishing the people to treat all foreigners with becoming kind-ness and telling the population of the punishment meted out to the Boxers. These conditions may seem harsh and severe, yet the Chinese government wasnot in a position to reject them. Besides, they were mild compared with theoriginal demands of some of the powers. If these demands had prevailed the par-tition of China would have been an accomplished
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