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Page 11
... conquest , determined to make his position secure by invading China . If the enterprise had failed , there would have been an end to the paramounce of Meha , but his rapid success convinced the Huns that their proper and most profitable ...
... conquest , determined to make his position secure by invading China . If the enterprise had failed , there would have been an end to the paramounce of Meha , but his rapid success convinced the Huns that their proper and most profitable ...
Page 13
... conquests was to add the difficult and inaccessible province of Fuhkien to the Empire . He also endeavoured to propitiate the Huns by giving their chief one of the princesses of his family as a wife , but the opinion was gaining ground ...
... conquests was to add the difficult and inaccessible province of Fuhkien to the Empire . He also endeavoured to propitiate the Huns by giving their chief one of the princesses of his family as a wife , but the opinion was gaining ground ...
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... victory flies from one success to another . " But Ssemachow preferred a slower and surer mode of action , with the result that the conquest of Ou was put off for twenty years . Ssemachow died in A.D. 265 , and his son Ssemachu 21 ...
... victory flies from one success to another . " But Ssemachow preferred a slower and surer mode of action , with the result that the conquest of Ou was put off for twenty years . Ssemachow died in A.D. 265 , and his son Ssemachu 21 ...
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... retain his conquests over the southern Han states and to find in his new subjects in that quarter faithful and valiant soldiers . The success of the Leaou army was also largely due to the tactical skill SUNGS AND KINS . 37.
... retain his conquests over the southern Han states and to find in his new subjects in that quarter faithful and valiant soldiers . The success of the Leaou army was also largely due to the tactical skill SUNGS AND KINS . 37.
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... conquest , and the evident weakness of the Chinese , raised the confidence of the Kins to such a high point , that they declared that the Sungs must surrender to them the whole of the territory north of the Hoangho , and they prepared ...
... conquest , and the evident weakness of the Chinese , raised the confidence of the Kins to such a high point , that they declared that the Sungs must surrender to them the whole of the territory north of the Hoangho , and they prepared ...
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ARTICLE attack became British Burgevine campaign Canton Canton river capital capture carried chief Chinese army Chinese authorities Chinese government Ching Chung Wang command Commissioner conquest Consul Corea death declared defence doubt duty dynasty Emperor of China Empire enemy English Europeans execution favour force foreign fortune frontier Galdan garrison Genghis honour hostility Imperial Imperialists Kanghi Kashgar Kashgaria Keen Lung Khan Khokand Kins Kublai Leaoutung Lord Elgin Mahomedan Major Gordon Manchu mandarins ment merchants military Ming ministers Mongols Nankin Noorhachu officers opium palace peace Pekin Plenipotentiary ports position possession Prince Kung province rebels reign river ruler Russian seemed sent Shanghai siege Sir Thomas Wade Soochow sovereign subjects succeeded success Sung surrender Szchuen Taepings Taitsong Taoukwang Tartar throne Tibet Tientsin tion town trade Treaty Treaty of Tientsin troops Viceroy victory Vouti Wang Khan Wang Mang Wou Sankwei Yunnan
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Page 306 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 381 - ... have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., a Major-General in the employ of the East India Company, &c. ; And His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China...
Page 281 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.
Page 407 - It is farther understood that so long as the laws of the two countries differ from each other, there can be but one principle to guide judicial proceedings in mixed cases in China, namely, that the case is tried by the official of the defendant's nationality ; the official of the plaintiff's nationality merely attending to watch the proceedings in the interests of justice. If the officer so attending be dissatisfied with the proceedings, it will be in his power to protest against them in detail....
Page 381 - His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint...
Page 391 - HER MAJESTY the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous...
Page 407 - With reference to the area within which, according to the treaties in force, likin ought not to be collected on foreign goods at the open ports, Sir Thomas Wade agrees to move his Government to allow the ground rented by foreigners (the so-called Concessions) at the different ports, to be regarded as the area of exemption from likin...
Page 383 - Emperor further engages, that when British Merchandise shall have once paid at any of the said Ports the regulated Customs and Dues agreeable to the Tariff, to be hereafter fixed, such Merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese Merchants, to any Province or City in the interior of the Empire of China on paying a further amount as Transit Duties which shall not exceed per cent, on the tariff value of such goods.
Page 391 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I.
Page 393 - ... under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through.