S.S. PioneerOn the morning of June 20, 1900 in Peking, German diplomat Klemens Freiherr von Ketteler was shot at point blank range by a Manchu soldier avenging Ketteler’s murder of a Chinese boy. Empress Dowager declared war on all foreign powers the next day. Meanwhile, 800 miles away in Ichang, Captain Cornell Plant set out to […]