jon_norstog
05-13-2014, 08:19
The reason I couldn't find the rather startling quote below is I was looking in primary sources - I thought I had seen it in the Reports. Anyway, it's from a secondary source.
“Throughout the campaign each contingent had scrutinized the equipment of the others with professional curiosity. Of particular interest to the Marines were the two mtypes of tifles with which they were armed: the Krag-Jorgenson was much admired by allied soldiers; the other, the Lee, was not.â€
Biggs, Chester M. The United States Marines in North China, 1894-1942 Jefferson N. Carolina: MacFarland & Co 2003. p. 128
The book is almost $50 in paperback. I think I'll try to find it in a library and see what was the source for that bit of information. Here's a link to the eBook.
http://books.google.com/books?id=S8YtE0SIDq0C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=1894+krag&source=web&ots=rt8ie8ILIr&sig=SH3_se1VHskfCE63FSNgakl8NFQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
There's a pretty decent map illustrating the attack on Peking a few pages down.
jn
“Throughout the campaign each contingent had scrutinized the equipment of the others with professional curiosity. Of particular interest to the Marines were the two mtypes of tifles with which they were armed: the Krag-Jorgenson was much admired by allied soldiers; the other, the Lee, was not.â€
Biggs, Chester M. The United States Marines in North China, 1894-1942 Jefferson N. Carolina: MacFarland & Co 2003. p. 128
The book is almost $50 in paperback. I think I'll try to find it in a library and see what was the source for that bit of information. Here's a link to the eBook.
http://books.google.com/books?id=S8YtE0SIDq0C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=1894+krag&source=web&ots=rt8ie8ILIr&sig=SH3_se1VHskfCE63FSNgakl8NFQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
There's a pretty decent map illustrating the attack on Peking a few pages down.
jn