The Life of Gordon: Major-General, R.E., C.B.; Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand ... 2
The Life of Gordon: Major-General, R.E., C.B.; Turkish Field-Marshal, Grand ... 2
Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger
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It again offered him a large sum of money, which was declined with as much firmness, although less emphasis, as on the earlier occasion. But he could not reject the promotion offered him to the high rank of Ti-Tu, or Field Marshal in the Chinese army, or churlishly refuse to receive the rare and high dignity of the Yellow Jacket The English reader has been inclined on occasion to smile and sneer at that honour, but its origin was noble, and the very conditions on which it was based ensured that... the holders should be very few in number. The story of its origin will admit of being retold. When the Manchus conquered China, in the middle of the seventeenth century, they received material aid from a Chinese soldier named Wou SankweL He was rewarded with the Viceroyalty of the whole of south-western China, in which region he became supreme. After many years the Manchus thought he posed with too great an air of independence, and he was summoned to Peking to give an account of his stewardship.
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