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.