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[quote=YINDUFFY,300938]More interesting facts: During the 1920's several foreign nations had troops stationed in Beijing. the French troops officers were from France but the enlisted soldiers were from the then French colony of Vietnam! When Beijing's Temple of Heaven (as seen on the National seal) was rebuilt after a fire in 1889 the new pillars supporting the roof were imported from the state of Oregon in the U.S.A.! While many have seen the old 1966 Steve McQueen movie "The Sand Pebble" about a U.S. river gunboat in China, few know that besides the 18 or so U.S. gunboats there were gunboats from Great Britain (34), Japan (17), France (12), Germany (8), Italy (3) and Portugal (1). (The counts are estimates) Perhaps the most famous gunboat was the U.S. Navy's U.S.S Panay, sunk by the Japanese while evacuating foreign nationals and diplomats from Nanking on Dec. 12, 1937. The attack was documented by the journalists on board and captured by newsreel cameras. There were many Chinese gunboats as well patrolling the rivers as they were the main avenues of commerce and bandits would attack shipping.[/quote]
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