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USS Monocacy incident
The USS ''Monocacy'' incident was an attack on the American gunboat in January 1918 by Chinese soldiers along the Yangtze River. It was one of many incidents at the time involving armed Chinese firing on foreign vessels.〔http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/biblio/Sept98-Yangtze_biblio.pdf〕
==Background==
At the beginning of World War I, the European nations with flotillas on the Yangtze withdrew their vessels to reinforce their fleets in Europe. This left the Yangtze Patrol with the only western naval presence on the river. China was initially a neutral power during the war, as was the United States. But when the American government declared war on Germany in 1917, a now belligerent flotilla of American ships occupied the neutral Chinese waters. As a result, the Yangzte Patrol was interned at Shanghai. The attack on ''Monocacy'' occurred in January 1918, just after the Yangze Patrol was released from internment upon China's declaration of war on Germany. Though America and China were allies, skirmishes between armed Chinese and foreigners became more and more common and would continue long after World War I. Lieutenant Harvey Delano of ''Monocacy'' received news that Chinese soldiers had fired on several foreign vessels in the area so in response, bags of coal were piled on deck to provide cover for the sailors on patrol.〔
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