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Title: 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
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ll and reach the position of the Russians. The relief of the besieged, however, did not end the fight. Russians and Jap-anese were still fighting at their positions, and even in the inner city volleys weredelivered by the enemy into the legation grounds. This fire was stopped shortby the Americans and Sikhs, who rushed the barricades and drove out the Boxersas well as the Chinese soldiers from the strongholds they had held so many weeks. The relief of Pekin practically ended the Chinese war. Count von Waldersee,the German field-marshal, who had been selected by the powers concerned to com-mand the allied forces, arrived on the scene shortly after, but his efforts were con-fined to the re-establishment of law and order within the city and Empire andavoiding outbreaks of jealousy and rivalry within the ranks of the allies them-selves. The Americans, acting upon instructions from Washington, refrained fromall further hostilities. As far as they were concerned the object of the expedition
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— 517 — had been attained. Minister Conger, and with him the lives of all other Americanswho had been imperiled, had been saved. On August 28th detachments of the various troops entered the Forbidden City—the palaces of the Emperor and Dowager Empress—and penetrated to grounds uponwhich hitherto no foreign devil had ever set his foot. The court had fled to Singan-fu, 500 miles from Pekin, and, owing to this dis-tance, and the stubborn conduct of the Chinese court, peace negotiations consumedmuch time. The well known tactics of Chinese diplomacy were again employed.The negotiations were being stretched by them in the hope that the allies wouldfight among themselves and thus give them a chance to gain better terms than thosewhich had been dictated. To frustrate these plans, and also to check and disperse the renewed gatheringsof large Chinese forces at several points in the province, the commander-in-chief wasforced to send several expetitions in different directions. All of the

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