Letter

Robert C. Schenck to Hamilton Fish, June 28, 1871

[Telegram.]

General Schenck to Mr. Fish

Lord Granville writes me as follows: A telegram, dated Shanghai this morning, informs me that your forces gained a victory over the Coreans on Keng Hoa Island. Corean stronghold was captured and destroyed. Dispatch reports five hundred Coreans killed. Your loss was one officer and two men killed, seven wounded.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.