CONTENTS
| Chap. | Page | |
| I. | Prelude | [9] |
| II. | The Bombardment and Storming of Taku Forts | [27] |
| III. | First Siege of Tientsin | [46] |
| IV. | Seymour’s Dash for Pekin | [70] |
| V. | Relief of Tientsin | [95] |
| VI. | Relief of Seymour | [113] |
| VII. | Pei-Yang—Second Siege of Tientsin | [130] |
| VIII. | Capture of Tientsin Native City | [155] |
| IX. | Scenes in the Captured City: Tientsin Looted | [176] |
| X. | Summary: Final Preparations for Advance: Fighting around Tientsin | [193] |
| XI. | Advance to Pekin | [211] |
| XII. | Capture of Pekin and Relief of Legations | [228] |
| XIII. | Story of the Siege of the Legations | [247] |
| XIV. | The Troops Compared | [270] |
| XV. | Return of Naval Brigade—Peh-tang and Shan-Hai-Kwan | [301] |
DEDICATED
BY
KIND PERMISSION
TO
The Right Honourable Earl Spencer
K.G., P.C.
(Late First Lord of the Admiralty)
IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS HAVING GIVEN ME A NOMINATION
FOR THE NAVY, AND FOR THE GENEROUS PATRONAGE
OF HIS LORDSHIP, AND HIS LATE FATHER, TO MY
GRANDFATHER AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER, WHO
HAD THE HONOUR MEDICALLY TO ATTEND
THE HOUSEHOLD AT ALTHORP PARK,
FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.