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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), China. (search)
Their establishments were looted and destroyed. Fourth—Foreign cemeteries, at Peking especially, were desecrated, the graves opened, and the remains scattered abroad. These occurrences necessarily led the foreign powers to despatch their troops to China to the end of protecting the lives of their representatives and nationals and restoring order. During their march to Peking the allied forces met with resistance from the Chinese army and had to overcome it by force. Inasmuch as China has recognized her responsibility, expressed great regret, and evinced a desire to see an end put to the situation created by the aforesaid disturbances, the powers have determined to accede to her request upon the irrevocable conditions enumerated below, which they deem indispensable to expiate the crimes committed and to prevent their recurrence: I. A. The despatch to Berlin of an extraordinary mission headed by an imperial prince, in order to express the regrets of his Majesty the E
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), China and the powers. (search)
in the commercial interests of both the United States and Great Britain that they should support China, and so prevent the total collapse of this immense empire, together with the consequent disorganecessary to go to Congress, or to the Imperial Parliament, to secure the men necessary to assist China to effect these reforms. As long as the four governments induced China to undertake the reformsChina to undertake the reforms in return for their protection, men would easily be secured from all of these countries, and also from other nations, who would assist the Chinese in building up their empire on more stable foundations. The moral and political support of China by the four powers I have named is all that is needed. They need not expend a single shilling, or move a single man, officially, in order to carry it out. All that is required is that China shall be assisted, and, in return for such assistance, shall employ foreigners of all countries who will reorganize her army and her finances on as sound line
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese-American reciprocity. (search)
er comparisons are needless. Suffice it to say that China has her teeming millions to feed and to clothe. Man American countries $2,713,967. It thus appears that China is the largest buyer of American cotton goods. Britalso passed that mark. This is due to the fact that China has now begun in real earnest the work of building rhe conditions of trade in China. Thus we see that China can give the United States a much-needed market. Whesides railroads, there are other public works which China must undertake sooner or later. Among them are rivere not enjoyed by its own subjects or citizens. But China has been so long accustomed to indemnify foreigners es would be flooded with my countrymen. Inasmuch as China contains some 400,000,000 inhabitants, a wholesale e in her way. I hope that the day will soon come when China may follow in her footsteps. In the mean time, Chher nation has a stronger claim to the confidence of China than has the United States. The very first article
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
iests of France were chasing their dreams in the North, searching for a passage to China and the realms of Far Cathay, and telling the mystery of the Cross to the Indian tribes of the far West. Coasting northward, her bold navigators discovered the mouth of the St. Lawrence; and in 1525 Cartier sailed up its broad current to the rocky heights of Quebec, and to the rapids above Montreal, which were afterwards named La Chine, in derision of the belief that the adventurers were about to find China. In 1609 Champlain pushed above the rapids and discovered the beautiful lake that bears his name. In 1615 Priest La Caron pushed northward and westward through the wilderness and discovered Lake Huron. In 1635 the Jesuit missionaries founded the Mission St. Mary. In 1654 another priest had entered the wilderness of northern New York and found the salt springs of Onondaga. In 1659-60 French traders and priests passed the winter on Lake Superior and established missions along its shor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1893 (search)
questions growing out of the antiforeign uprisings in China of 1900, having been formulated in a joint note addressed to China by the representatives of the injured powers in December last, were promptly accepted by the Chinese government. After pere able to sign a final protocol with the Chinese plenipotentiaries on Sept. 7 last, setting forth the measures taken by China in compliance with the demands of the joint note, and expressing their satisfaction therewith. It will be laid before thint, and will contribute materially to better future relations between China and the powers. Reparation has been made by China for the murder of foreigners during the uprising, and punishment has been inflicted on the officials, however high in ranhe procurement of enlarged commercial opportunities on the coasts, but access to the interior by the waterways with which China has been so extraordinarily favored. Only by bringing the people of China into peaceful and friendly community of trade
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Submarine cables. (search)
ables.Length of Cable in Nautical Miles. Austria41 214 Belgium 2 55 Denmark73 235 France54 5,035 Germany58 2,225 Great Britain and Ireland135 1,989 Greece46 55 Holland24 62 Italy 39 1,061 Norway325 324 Portugal4115 Russia 9231 Spain15 1,744 Sweden14 96 Switzerland2 10 Turkey23 344 Argentine Republic and Brazil49 119 Australia and New Zealand31 345 Bahama Islands1 213 British America1 200 British India (Indo-European Telegraph Department）111 1,919 China2 113 Cochin China and Tonquin2 774 Japan70 1,508 Macao1 2 Nouvelle Caledonie1 1 Netherlands Indies7 891 Senegal, Africa—Dakar to Goree Island1 3 —————— Total1,141 19,883 On Sept. 23, 1901, the Commercial Pacific Company was incorporated in Albany, N. Y., for the purpose of laying a submarine cable from San Francisco to Manila, the line to touch Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific, which have been Types of cables used since 1858. acquired by the United States government. The e
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 49: (search)
his season in the China Sea, to the northward of the equator, to stretch over to the coast of Cochin China, and hold myself for a short time in the track of the ships coming down from Canton and Shangmes sweeping down that sea, in the winter months, blows parallel with the coasts of China and Cochin China. This wind drives a current before it to the south-west. This current, as it strikes the pemonsoon, from about N. N. E., and, getting up our kedge, we made our way over to the coast of Cochin China, in accordance with the intention already expressed. There is no navigation, perhaps, in td pretty soon afterward we were boarded by a French boat; Pulo Condore—lying off the coast of Cochin China—having recently become a French colony. The island had been taken possession of by France twil-steamer, between Singapore and Saigon, the latter the capital of the French possessions in Cochin China, and the Governor receiving a large mail while we were here, was kind enough to send us some
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
es used as a term for the west, meaning the Mediterranean, which was behind when the sun was faced. With us, the north is supposed to be faced in giving the points of the compass in their order; boxing the compass. The Hawaiians front the west, and call north right, south left. The Chinese chronicles of Szuki of Szumathsin, written in the second century before our era, state that 900 years before, Tsching-wang, the Emperor of China, gave magnetic cars to the ambassadors of Tonquin and Cochin China, in order that they might not miss their way on their return home. In the forward part of the magnetic car was a floating needle, the motions of which were communicated to a small figure whose outstretched arm and hand pointed toward the south. It was used as late as the fifteenth century A. D., and the cars, carefully preserved in the imperial palace of China, were used in determining the point toward which the main sides of the public buildings should be directed. It thus appears
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
o Alderney1830 1870Santa Maura to Ithaca7180 1870Zante to Trepito11235 1870Sunium to Thermia25160 1870Patras, Greece, to Lepanto220 1870Dartmouth, England, to Guernsey6658 1870Guernsey to Jersey1532 1870Porto Rico to St. Thomas11022 1870Santiago, Cuba, to Jamaica140 1870Portpatrick, Scotland, to Donaghadee, Ireland25160 1871Javea to Iviza430 1871Majorca to Minorca3593 1871Villa Real to Gibraltar15584 1871Marseilles, France, to Algiers, Africa4471,625 1871Singapore to Saigon, Cochin China62060 Date.FromLength in Miles.Greatest Depth in Fathoms. 1871Saigon to Hong Kong975630 1871Hong Kong to Shanghai1,10042 1871Shanghai, China, to Nagasaki, Japan1,200135 1871Nagasaki to Vladivostock, Siberia80 1871Rhodes to Marmarice22 1871Latakia to Cyprus86 1871Samos to Scala Nuova1182 1871Myteleni to Aivali1333 1871Khania to Retimo32200 1871Retimo to Khandia41152 1871Khandia to Rhodes201600 1871Khios to Chesmeh633 1871Zante to Corfu150 1871Zante to Cephalonia18203 187
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
their end a control over opinion among the scholars and courts of Europe and throughout the habitable globe, the order of the Jesuits held, as its ruling maxims, the widest diffusion of its influence, and the closest internal unity. Immediately on its institution, their missionaries, kindling with a heroism that defied every danger and endured every toil, made their way to the ends of the earth; they raised the emblem of man's salvation on the Moluccas, in Japan, in India, in Thibet, in Cochin China, and in China; they penetrated Ethiopia, and reached the Abyssinians; they Chap. XX.} planted missions among the Caffres: in California, on the banks of the Marañhon, in the plains of Paraguay, they invited the wildest of barbarians to the civilization of Christianity. The genius of Champlain, whose comprehensive 1632 mind planned enduring establishments for French commerce, and a career of discovery that should carry the lilies of the Bourbons to the extremity of North America, cou
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