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Yankee of the Yalu

by McGiffin, Lee

Biography & MemoirYoung AdultDystopian

1968

Because of a Congressional cutback in appropriations in 1894 commissions were not available for several Annapolis graduates. This is the biography of one graduate who offered his services to China and performed several missions for them prior to the Boxer Rebellion.

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