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The Grangers' connection with the It may have mattered little anyway:
Yangtze gunboats apparently is "[s]oon after the 1927 Battle of
unique to the histories of gunboats Wanhsien, where three British river
and paleontology. Yangtze gunboats gunboats bloodily slugged it out with
in particular interacted with all sorts a Chinese field army, the China
of civilians throughout the Yangtze, Weekly Review read the tea leaves
but Walter Granger is the only fossil- with awesome accuracy: 'A little tin
hunting paleontologist for whom, as gunboat on a narrow river is no
well as for his wife, there is a record match in a fight with a Chinese army
of contact. The Grangers' equipped with modern heavy
involvement was not with Chinese artillery.'" (Tolley, p. 303.)
gunboats however, although those
were present on the Yangtze of The American YangPat fleet of the
course; it was with British and 1920s also included the USS Elcano,
American gunboats. Quiros, and Villalobos, three vessels
captured from the Philippines during
But, you ask, how could this be? the Spanish-American War (1898).
Wasn't the Yangtze a Chinese The Italians filled the gap left by the
territorial river then as it is now? Germans and Austro-Hungarians after
their defeat in World War I. One of
The answer lies in the series of broad the Italian gunboats was the
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