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Title: Corea, the hermit nation : I. Ancient and mediaeval history. II. Political and social Corea. III. Modern and recent history
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Griffis, William Elliot, 1843-1928
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a conical hill one hundredand fifty feet high, measuring from the bottom of the ravine. Itmounted, with the redoubt below, one hundred and forty-threeguns. The sides of the hill were very steep, the walls of the fortjoining it almost without a break. Up this steej) incline our menwere to rush in the face of the garrisons fire. Could the white-coats depress the jingals at a sufiiciently low angle, they must an-nihilate the blue-jackets. Should our men reach the walls, theycould easily enter through the breaches made by the Monocacysshells. As usual, slowness, and the national habit of being behindtime, saved our men and lost the day for Corea. A terrible reception awaited the Americans. Every man insidewas bound to die at his post, for this fort being the key to all the OUR LITTLE WAR WITH THE HEATHEN. 415 others, was held by the tiger-hunters, who, if they flinched beforethe enemy, were to be put to death by their own people. I iiji Coreani t! Forces lattery _ - ^Companies JJo.l~r V^
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^o««J- •Xjinding Juno 10(h. MUD FLATS f^^ Map of the American Naval Operations in 1871. All being ready, our men rose up with a yell and rushed forthe redoubt, officers in front. A storm of jingal balls rained over 416 CORE A. their heads, but their clash up the hill was so rapid that the gar-rison could not dej^ress their pieces or load fast enough. Theirpowder burned too slowly to hurt the swift Yankees. Goaded todespair tlie tiger-hunters chanted their war-dirge in a blood-chilling cadence which nothing can duplicate. They mountedthe parapet, fighting with furious courage. They cast stones atour men. They met them with spear and sword. With handsemptied of weapons, they picked up dust and threw in the invaderseyes to blind them. Expecting no quarter and no relief, they con-tested the ground inch by inch and fought only to die. Scoreswere shot and tumbled into the river. Most of the wounded weredrowned, and some cut their own throats as they rushed into thewater. Lieuteuant Mclv

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