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The Mercenary Mandarin: How a British adventurer became a general in Qing-dynasty China
The Mercenary Mandarin How a British adventurer became a general in Qingdynasty China
Author: David Leffman
William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and civil war in 19th-century China, he became a smuggler, a prisoner of the Taiping rebels, a gun-runner and finally enlisted in the Chinese military. — After five years of fierce campaigning against the Miao in remot...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789881376541
ISBN-10: 9881376548
Publication Date: 9/1/2016
Pages: 372
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Publisher: Blacksmith Books
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