To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 |
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... rebels , they were a new phenomenon in Chinese history , unlike the peasant rebel armies of the past . Their leader , Hung Hsiu - ch'üan , had gleaned the elements of Christianity from a Protestant missionary pamphlet and had learned in ...
... rebels , they were a new phenomenon in Chinese history , unlike the peasant rebel armies of the past . Their leader , Hung Hsiu - ch'üan , had gleaned the elements of Christianity from a Protestant missionary pamphlet and had learned in ...
Page 73
... rebels : " Ward has seen me today , and urges me to transfer him to help attack [ Nanking ] . He says that he could arrive there in three days , build forts in three days , and recover the city in another three days without fail . After ...
... rebels : " Ward has seen me today , and urges me to transfer him to help attack [ Nanking ] . He says that he could arrive there in three days , build forts in three days , and recover the city in another three days without fail . After ...
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... rebels from a thirty - mile zone around that city . Accord- ing to the commander of the land forces , General Staveley ( the brother - in - law of Gordon's older brother Henry ) , " Captain Gordon was of the greatest use to me ...
... rebels from a thirty - mile zone around that city . Accord- ing to the commander of the land forces , General Staveley ( the brother - in - law of Gordon's older brother Henry ) , " Captain Gordon was of the greatest use to me ...
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To God Through the Stars | 3 |
Bodies or Souls | 34 |
Glorious Days of Looting | 57 |
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