Major-General William Crozier, who has been for many years Chief of Ordnance in Washington, D. C., is now in Peking and he will be in Shanghai in a few days. Major-General Crozier is a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy and his military career has been long and interesting. He served in the Powder River campaign against the Sioux Indians in the winter of 1876 and 1877; in the campaign against the Bannocks in 1876; he was staff officer in the field in the Philippine insurrection in 1900; and chief ordance officer of the Peking relief expedition in 1900. He has not only done great things in the military field but has also branched out into the field of experimental philosophy and invention. With General Buffington, he invented the Buffington-Crozier disappearing gun carriage and he is also the inventor of a wire gun., By the Military Academy Major-General Crozier was- appointed professor of natural and experimental philosophy after his discharge from voluntary service, but he declined this and in the same year was made Brigadier-General Chief of Ordnance of the U. S. A Among the many entertainments given in honour of Major-General Crozier while he was in Peking, was a big dinner, given by. the Peking post of the American Legion.
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