On Tuesday evening, November 14, the Yale Club dined at th formed conspioaous services, for which he received the thanks of Her Majesty's Government. Writing on Angast 15, 1900, at the conclusion of the memorable account of the siege, "The Times" Peking correspondent esid:—"I have not snfliciently recorded the valuable services rendered by Mr. H. G. Squiers, the First Secretary of the American Legation, who on the death of Captsin Strouts became chief of the staff to Sir Claude MacDonald, He had been for fifteen years in the United Btates Oavalry, and his knowledge and skill and the resolatic ith which he inspired his small body of men will not readily be forgotten." It
July 3 a forlorn hope of sixty-five was by his urgent advice that on men, Bi, American, and Russiso, charged the "Chinese forces which bad seized the Tartar Wall and drove them from it—the only effectual offensive measure accomplished by the besieged. As chief of Sir Claude MacDonald's staff, his tact, bonhonde, and knowledge of languages proved of great service in maintaining friendly ce-operation between the different nationalistic eldest son was orderly to Sir Claude MacDonald during the siege.
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