US Marines - end of the Siege of Peking

From the film - 55 days at Peking

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[dachicagoan]

Yay! Hurray for us Americans!! Invading a country and when they defend themselves - we massacre them!! USA!!! USA!!! USA!!

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@dachicagoan

This siege was relatively bloodless for the foreign contingent.

[dachicagoan]

@USMarineRifleman0311 when Americans are shooting at people while invading them who cares if it's bloodless? the point is we shouldn't have been there in the first place. We should know better, England did it to us and now we are doing the same to others.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@dachicagoan

true, but a higher understanding of history is required to make judgements such as that.

History isnt as simple as "we shouldnt have been there"

England wasnt trying to prevent the spread of something evil in the colonies. England and the rest of Europe towards the end of the 18th century was trying to prevent a common good which was threating their monarchies. France went bankrupt funding our revolution like we did funding cold war conflicts.

[Griffeye77]

I only said he didn't "win" the medal - he earned it. In fact Sergeant Major Dailey is one of only 19 men (one of which is George Custer's brother, Tom) to have been awarded the medal of honor twice. In the Sergeant Majors case, once in China and again 14 years later in Haiti. He's also rumored to be the originator of the phrase "Come on, you wanna live forever!" during the battle of Belleau Wood. Which books did you have in mind?

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@Griffeye77

I think it was also Frederick the Great that said something like "Do you want to live forever" to his men.

[oldsgtjoe]

a Marine name Daniel Daly won the Medal of Honor at the battle of Peking in 1900..

[snakes3425]

@USMarineRifleman0311

I'm going to throw this out here but they left something out: the American Contingent scaling the walls of Peking and raising the Stars and Stripes on the Tartar Wall

[uafchris]

@USMarineRifleman0311 You say that but Britain was trying to prevent the American colonists from expanding into Indian territory and killing the natives, id call that trying to prevent the spread of something evil. Also England never colonised the Americans, the Americans were the English colonists who then went rogue and pretty much wiped out the natives. Americans were always imperialists, their entire country is built on it.

[uafchris]

@MichaelWalter1000 Actually Japan and Britain won this particular war

[davidbmason]

@WolfLord5 I don't know what to say!

[WolfLord5]

@davidbmason What? Doesn't everyone want a little Chinese girl?

[aikiach]

Every soldier from evrey country does it's duty, it's a shame that goverments take advantage of their Bravery and justify atrocities in the name of patriotism

[MichaelWalter1000]

The Americans won the war, China won the peace. Cheap Chinese labor + greedy U.S. businessmen are screwing this country. Be American: buy American!