Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
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Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
This battle honour is borne by the regiments which accompanied
General Sir Hope Grant to Pekin during the second Chinese War of
1860:
King's Dragoon Guards.
Royal Scots.
Queen's R.W. Surrey.
King's Royal Rifles.
Hampshire.
Wiltshire.
11th K.E.O. Lancers (Probyn's Horse).
19th Lancers (Fane's Horse).
2nd Q.O. Sappers and Miners.
20th Brownlow's Punjabis.
23rd Pioneers.
After the fall of the Taku Forts, the Chinese Envoys made every
effort to induce Sir Hope Grant to forgo his march on the capital,
but both the English and the French commanders felt this was a
point that could not be waived. In the course of the negotiations
some members of the Staff were seized by the Chinese, and, after
undergoing the most brutal torture, were foully murdered. Such
conduct merely emphasized the necessity for the occupation of the
capital, and on October 5 the allied armies entered Pekin, having
experienced but slight opposition during the advance, the survivors
of the little band who had been so treacherously captured having
been previously released.
OTHER CASUALTIES IN ACTION DURING THE MARCH TO PEKIN.
+-----------------------+-----------+-----------+
| |_Officers._| _Men._ |
| _Regiments._ +-----+-----+-----+-----+
| | K. | W. | K. | W. |
+-----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|K. Drag. Gds. | - | 1 | 1 | 10 |
|2nd Queen's. | - | - | 1 | 2 |
|3rd Buffs | - | - | - | 3 |
|11th Probyn L. | - | 2 | 4 | 16 |
|19th Fane's H. | - | 2 | 3 | 24 |
|20th Brownlow's Punjs. | - | - | 2 | 6 |
|23rd Pioneers | - | 1 | 1 | 8 |
+-----------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+
CHINA, 1900.
This distinction is borne by the regiments which took part in the
expedition to China in the year 1900, under the command of General
Sir Alfred Gaselee, in conjunction with the allied army, which
was entrusted to the supreme command of Field-Marshal the Count
Waldersee, a German officer of distinction.
15th Cavalry.
33rd Q.O. Light Cavalry.
2nd Q.O. Light Infantry.
1st K.E.O. Sappers and Min.
2nd Q.O. Sappers and Min.
3rd Sappers and Miners.
6th Jat. Light Infantry.
14th Sikhs.
20th Brownlow's Punjabis.
34th Pioneers.
57th Wilde's Rifles.
61st Pioneers.
63rd Light Infantry.
88th Carnatic Infantry.
91st Punjabis.
98th Infantry.
122nd Rajputana Infantry.
130th Baluchis.
4th Gurkhas.
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