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Unknown [James Winn]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04546.138 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Shanghai, China Type: Photograph Date: 1900 ca. Pagination: 1 cabinet card ; 17 x 11 cm. Order a Copy

Full length portrait in U.S. Navy uniform. Inscription on verso reads "James Winn, Cleveland, Ohio"

Brown served as Paymaster Yeoman on the USS Monocacy during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. The Monocacy had served in Chinese waters for nearly 30 years, and was ordered to recapture the forts at Taku on 11 June 1900. He was trapped with the US Marines and multinational force in Tientsin.

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