Sungkiang

Tumble over their black bannermen and they'll run as fast as ... as we did that first time we attacked Sungkiang.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Little is known of his personality except that he was cheerful and amiable, but he must have had a remarkable gift of leadership, if only to hold his little army together through its early reverses, especially the first assault on Sungkiang, when his entire force arrived in action in an advanced state of intoxication.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Tumble over their black bannermen and they'll run as fast as … as we did that first time we attacked Sungkiang.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"I don't give a hoot how odd they are so long as they can stand up and shoot! That's all they'll have to do when Lee lays siege to Sungkiang."

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"I don't give a hoot how odd they are so long as they can stand up and shoot! That's all they'll have to do when Lee lays siege to Sungkiang."

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Little is known of his personality except that he was cheerful and amiable, but he must have had a remarkable gift of leadership, if only to hold his little army together through its early reverses, especially the first assault on Sungkiang, when his entire force arrived in action in an advanced state of intoxication.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

For young Fred, not content with guarding Shanghai, led his amazing rabble upriver one fine night to attack a Taiping outpost at Sungkiang.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Flashman's account of Ward's initial battles is entirely accurate; after his second defeat at Chingpu, and the loss of Sungkiang which followed, he went to France to recuperate, returning to China and fighting with growing success (but not without controversy) until his death: he was killed leading an attack on Tse-kee, on September 21, 1862.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

He'd drilled some sense and order into them, God knows how … and they took Sungkiang, bigod, after a fearful cut-and-thrust in which they lost sixty dead and a hundred wounded — and friend Frederick got a hundred and thirty thousand bucks commission from the China merchants.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

He'd drilled some sense and order into them, God knows how ... and they took Sungkiang, bigod, after a fearful cut-and-thrust in which they lost sixty dead and a hundred wounded - and friend Frederick got a hundred and thirty thousand bucks commission from the China merchants.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985