| Evidence: | 'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking Gazette") and the despatches of the French general (published by the French Government) about the same battles. It was most instructive reading.The Chinese reported to the emperor [...] that the French had from ten to twenty times the number they really had ; and the slaughter these gallant Chinese soldiers effected beats everything previously recorded in history. Accirding to the "Peking Gazette", no les than 1,800,000 Frenchmen were actually killed in the Tonquin [sic] war: and according to the same authority Admiral Courbet was killed on forty-six occasions.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 17 Apr 1887 and 23 Apr 1887 | ||||||||||
| Country: | China | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kwei-hwa-cheng specific address: China Inland Mission House |
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| Reader: | Francis Younghusband |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 31 May 1863 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | soldier and explorer |
| Religion: | Evangelical Christian at the time later promoted his own brand of spirituality |
| Country of origin: | India, English parents |
| Country of experience: | China |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Peking Gazette |
| Genre: | army despatches |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | 1883-1884 (during Sino-French War in Tonkin) |
| Provenance: | read in situ |
| Record ID: | 18517 | |
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| Author: | Francis E. Younghusband | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Pamirs and Chitrai, 1884-1894 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 72 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Francis E. Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Pamirs and Chitrai, 1884-1894 (London, 1897), p. 72, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18517, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
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