<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">Unfortunately, I have no good answers for Mr. Matthew Smith but would like to share following with you, if I may:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br>1. The Last Battle of the Tortoise Ship(°ÅºÏ¼±, <a href="http://hanja.naver.com/word?q=%EF%A4%87%E8%88%B9" target="_blank"><span>ТàÏ</span></a>) <br>
</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <span></span><span></span>"An ancient armored float was brought into play, the
tortoise boat, a scow mounted with cannon and protected by a
covering of sheet iron and bull hide. The front part of the armour
lifted when the shot was fired and closed immediately afterward. Even
the tortoise boat failed to injure the foreign ship." - The Tragedy of Korea, Frederick Arthur McKenzie, 1908<br><br>2. The trophies of the fight<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
"The trophies of this fight are shown today in the sharp of the anchor
chains of the ill fated vessel, which hang in one of the gateways of
P'yung-yang." - 1905 Hulbert's History of Korea, 1962 Annotated by Clarence Norwwod Weems,1962<br><br>3. U.S. Acting Minister George C. Foulk refused to SQUEEZE Korean Government<br></blockquote><div> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">"By the last mail I am directed to SQUEEZE out of Korea an amount of
money for the loss of life and property in the case of the schooner <span>Sherman</span> destroyed by Korean twenty years ago. My heart is not in such work and I don't believe Korea out to pay, or will she. The <span>Sherman</span>'s people had no business to go to Korea, as Korea forbade foreigners from coming there, and again, all account agree in that the foreigners fired off guns, which made the Korean believe they came to do harm.The loss of life,etc. was due to ignorance as much on one side as the other, and with this much in favor of Koreans, that the schooner people were the first aggressors." U.S. Legation, Seoul, October 13, 1985<br>
<br>"I have come to a peculiar point in my official life. Heretofore I have been wholly. <br>
subordinated to the government, and its orders did not cross with my ideas of morality and justice. I have received an order to take up the affair of an American schooner <span>Sherman</span>, which
was destroyed by Koreans twenty years ago, and her crew put to death,
and to demand an INDEMNITY from the Koreans. It seems to me that if it
is proper to take this money from Korea now, it would be just as proper for lots of our
citizens to make the State Department get indemnities out of Indians,
whose forefathers killed relatives of American citizens in the past centuries. The government at home seems to forget that the <span>Sherman</span> had no business to come to Korea at all, as it has not made any preparation for the security of Americans who might go to Korea. It seems to me the <span>Sherman</span> people made an adventure with the consequences in their own hands.The question as to whether I shall severely tackle Korea on this subject or not is the most embarrassing one I ever had . I am inclined to think the government is presuming on me because I have been successful in a number of minor cases. How is that it did not order <span>General</span> Foote to settle this matter, or did not settle it when the treaty was made in 1882? I am disposed to leave the case to be wrastled with by the pot-belled Democrat I expect to come hereto relieve me, and than stand off and see the dust fly." U.S. Legation, Seoul, February 12, 1886(New Year's Day)<br>
<br>America's Man in Korea<br>The private letters of George C. Foulk, 1884-1887<br>Edited by Samuel Hawley<br>Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2009<br></blockquote><div><br>
<div>4)1986 North Korea erected a monument (see below)to memorialize the battle and re-invent the history<br></div>
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This granite monument stands near the captured U. S. Spy Ship USS Pueblo (you can see the
ship's mast at the bottom left of the picture). North Korean re-wrote
history as it is inscribed on the monument that Kim Il-sung's
Great-Grandfather, Kim Ung-u led the fight. It looks tome like the monument <br>was built for Kim Il-sung's Great-Grandfather rather than for the battle.<br><br>Thank and regards,<br><br>Kwang-On Yoo<br><br><br></div>
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<div><span>Greetings all. I've a question that I'm sure someone more knowledgable than I can answer.</span></div>
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<div><span>I recently read Don Southerton's "Intrepid Americans, Bold Koreans" and discovered a curious mention to the ill-fated <i>General Sherman</i>. I was under the impression that after the crew was killed, the beached ship was burned just outside Pyongyang on the Taedong river in August of 1866.</span></div>
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<div><span>However, Southerton cites the ship as refitted and renamed "Warship Number One" then sent downriver of Seoul to Mangwonjung. However, for whatever reason, it was mysteriously returned to America and reportedly sunk off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina in January 10th 1874. </span></div>
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<div><span>U.S. Navy archives seem to agree: ( <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/pr-royal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/pr-royal.htm</a>) The city of Wilmington directed me to this interactive wreck map ( <a href="http://wreckhunter.net/InteractiveWreckMap.htm" target="_blank">http://wreckhunter.net/InteractiveWreckMap.htm</a> ) but I couldn't find a reference to the <i>General Sherman</i> or the <i>Princess Royal</i> (a previous name). </span><span>As noted in Southerton's work, there were several ships named the General Sherman. Are we even talking about the same ship? <span><a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/pr-royal.htm" target="_blank">http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/pr-royal.htm</a> versus <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-g/gn-shrmn.htm" target="_blank">http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-g/gn-shrmn.htm</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span>Does anyone have any convincing reference? Was it indeed sunk in Korea or refitted and returned to the U.S. only to sink in Cape Fear eight years later? Any insight would be helpful.<span><font color="#888888"><var></var></font></span></span><span><font color="#888888">
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