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THE BOY TRAVELLERS.
GICNEliAL ^VAKI'.
''Ward raised tlie army that he bad proposed, and from one tlioiisaiid
it soon fjrew to tliree thousand. It was armed with foreign rifles, and
had a battery of Enropean artillery. The officers were English, American,
French, and of other foreign nationalities, and the men were drilled in the
European fashion. So nniforndy were they successfnl that tliey received
tlie 7iame of 'the Invincibles,' and retained it tbrongh all tJieir career,
Tlie American adventurer became ' (Tcneral ' Ward,
was naturalized as a
Chinese subject, was made a red-button mandarin, and received from the
gdvernnient a present of a largo tract of land and a fine house in Shang-
hai. Tie was several times wounded, and finally, in October, lS(i'2, lie was
killed in an attack on one of the rebel strongliolds.
" Wai'd was succeeded by an American naiued Ilnrgevine, who had been