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“818 IS TBICKEH
THAN WATEB?
li NasNollhe United Stales'.
Fdneral Bill
TJTNJLL HELPED
T|lE ENGLISH.
Paid a Social Ca'l During a
Shower of Shot And Shall,
and American Seamen Took
The Places of Wounded
British Gunners.
I
This is the story of a naval
battle, notable not because it
was one of the most desperate
in modern warfare, but because
it revealed, as in a flash of while
light, the kindred ties that bind
the two mighty nations of Anglo-
Saxon blood.
On June 24, 1859, 21 ships
of-war, the allied flests of Eng
land and France, rode at anchor
in the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, off the
mouth of the Pei ho river. They
had come bearing the newly ap
pointed ministers to China who
were to ratify the treaties nego
tiated in the preceding year.
According to agreement they
were to proceed up the Pei-ho
river to Tientsin, where the di
plomats were to receive safe
escort to the imperial court at
Pekin.
Upon their arrival, however,
they found that the Chinese had
blocked the fairway with booms
and the sunken hulls of fat old
junks and fortified the shores
with seven formidable forts, so
that a captain’s gig could not
have passed in safety.
Admiral Hope, of the British
fleet, sent a boat ashore and de
manded the instant removal of
the obstructions. A gigantic
coolie, the officer in command,
grovelled and expostulated, but
the fairway was not cleared.
For such offenses England
knows only one remedy,
“I will give you until June
25 to open the river,” wrote
Admiral Hope. “If the work is
not done by that time I shall
blow up your forts.”
A bar five miles wide filled
the river mouth like the stopper
of a bottle, preventing the pas
sage of the large vessels. On
June 24 Admiral Hope and the
French commodore marshaled
13 of tneir smaller gunboats in
line of battle and steamed boldly
up the river.
While they were preparing to
make a dernontration, Capt. Jo
siah Tatnall, flying the blue flag
of an admiral in the United
States navy, came up across the
bar on the unarmed steamer
Toey-wan. He had left his flag
ship, the Powhaten, in the bay
outside. The allied fleets parted
to let him by. His purpose was :
to demand instant passage in the
name of the president of the
United States.
When he was almost under
the walls of the first fort the
plucky little Toey-wan rammed
>her nose into the mud and heeled
■over heavily with the falling j
tide. Capt. Tatnall sent messen- ,
gers ashore,but they were hardly '
allowed to land, the gigantic
coolies still refusing passage.
Admiral Hope now saw the
danger of the American ship,
particularly in her exposed posi
tion under the forts, and he sent
[the gunboat Plover with his
compliments to drag her off .
I But the chain parted and the
Toey-wan lurched still further
over. At this the gallant admiral
dispatched another vssel.
“Tell the A inerican command
er,” he said, “to hoist his en
sign aboard and keep her as
long as he desires.”
But a favorable wind having
arisen, Capt. Tattnall declined
I the courtesy, and durins the
night he was able to clear the
shoal.
Shortly after two . o’clot k on
the following day the allied
fleets cleared for action. Ihe
gunboat Plover ran up the river
under a full hei.d of steam and
drove headlong into the first
boom. It snapped like a cotton
co d, and the Plover spun shud
dering into the clear water be
yond.
All this time the seven grim
forts hud given no sign. Not a
man had shown himself above
the ramparts. No flags were dis
played and thb gun embrasures
were webbed with matting. The
collie commander had assured
the English that the forts were
quite empty. Os a sudden,
while the Plover was trimming
for a plunge at the second boom,
the ramparts above swarmed
with gunners. An instant later
a hundred guns, trained with
merciless cunning, belched out
a stream of fire and solid shot.
Nearly every ship in the fleet
was hit. The little Plover stag
i gered and fluttered, riddled with
shot, A bail carried away a gun
ner's head and mortally wound
ed three other men.
Tins was the beginning. The
admiral drove his . little fleet
close in where the fire was dead
liest and poured broadside after
broadside into the enemy’s forts.
But the Chinese beat their tom
toms and continued to fire fran
tically. At 5 o’clock two of the
British ships Had been sunk and
four others were aground, hope
lessly wrecked.
Admiral Hope and three of
his captains were wounded and
the flag had been twice changed
and now lew from the mast
head of the Cormorant.
Capt. Tatnall had seen all
this from the bridge es the Toey
wan. His masts had swarmed
with seamen, cheering the Brit
ish gunners, but the law of neu
trality forbade any interference.
At sunset three small boats
shot out from among the Eng
lish ships and made across the
river in a storm of shot. Before
they had gone half way two
boats went down, pierced
through, with all their crews.
The third, bringing an English
midshipman, ran alongside the
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Toeywau.
The officer leaped on board
and reported that out of a crew
of 37 men on the flagship only
six remained, and that Admiral
Hope lay desperately wounded
on the quarter deck —and t 1 e
little midshipman looked wist
fully down across the bar where
the larger ships of the fleet
swarmed with reserves. Small
boats had been put eut, but ow
ing to the swift current and re
ceding tide they could not cross
the bar.
“Tell your admiral,” said
Capt Tattnall, “that the Ameri
can ship will bring up his re
serves.”
Two officers objected—it was
contrary to the law of neutrality,
bu’ Captain Tattnall looked across
the river where the helpless E> *
glish ships were b-ing battered to
pieces under the merciless fire,
“B luod is thicker than water,”
he said.
And while the English seamen
cheered and the Americans answer
ed them from the tops, he dropped
back with hawsers veered astern,
and when the boats of the reserve
had grappled fast he drove his
vessel across the river through a
whirlwind <n’ shot and shell.
Having delivered the reinforce
ments the Toey-wan dropped
back, but Captain Tattnall was
not yet satisfied with his work.
“After anchoring,” he said in
his report, “I thought of the ad
miral and his chivalrous kindness
to me on the day before, which,
from an unwillingness to intrude
on him when he was preparing
for action, I had in no way ac
knowledged.”
Having decided that it was hia
duty to pay his respects, the gal
lant captain forgot about the
hundred guns still thundering
from the forts. Twenty seamen
manned a barge aid, accompanied
by Flag L eutenant Trenchard, he
was rowed across the shot*swept
river. As they approached the
English flagship a Chinese shot
struck one of the oars, crashed
through the boat, and tore its way
out below the water line. Flying
splinters m >rtally wounded Coxs
s,'aiir Hart and injured ’he flag
lieutenant. The crew scrambled
from the sinking barge and were
dragged aboard the gunboat. Here
they beheld a terrible scene of
carnage. More than half the gun
ners lay dead and the decks were
slippery with blood. Whiln Cap
tain Tattnal' paid his respects to
th* British admiral the American
seamen, quite contrary to orders,
sprang to the British guns ram-«
tued home the shells, and the flag
ship spoke again to tie enemy’s
fort The exhausted gunners sat
up a wild cheer of approval and
with r mewed hope worked aide by
side with the Americans.
On hie return tn the Toey-wan
Cap'ain Tattnall called the smoke
grimed gunnere to account tor dis
obeying orders and taking part in
actual hostilities.
“Beg pardon, sir,” said one of
them, “they was short-hand d at
the bow gun, and so we giv d ’em
a help fer fellowship sake.”
And for the first time in Cnpt.
Tattnall’s service disobedience
went unpunished.
The Toey-w, n now returned to
the task of bringing up the British
reserves, continuing tar into the
night. At 8 o’clock u stormii g
party of 600 marines were landed
on the muddy shore. They waded
three terrible trenches sown with
caltrops, and cheered half way up
the embankment in the face of a
muderous fire of jingala and Mime
balls. Hours later. 400 of them
came straggling back, a full third
of the forces having been killed or
wounded.
Again the American snip came
to the rescue. It gathered up the
maimed, mangled and muddy
bodies of the English maiines and
with its own dead coxswain, drop
ped back across the bur in the gray
of the early morning. In the mean
time, Captain Tattnall had sent
Lieutunt Johnson outside the bar
and all night or the 26th he served
under the Union Jack carrying the
the defeated marines and wounded
seamen to places of safety.
Os 1.350 men of the ahi d fleets
who went into action, 450 were
killed and wounded, including 29
officers. In the course of the bat
tle the British admiral shifted his
flag no fewer than threi times,
“evening an indomitable valor,”
reported Captain Tattnall, “under
very d’sheartening and almost
hopeless surroundings,”
Captain Tattnall’■ act was a
distinct violation of neutrality but
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