ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors compare directly the events that saw these two men pursued by the state authorities whose existence they had each threatened. Beyond noting the incidental proximity of latitude, the chapter study how and why key elements of the planning and operation of Robert Wilcox’s failed revolutionary insurrection of January 1895 tangibly influenced the preparations for Sun Yatsen’s failed revolutionary insurrection of October 1895. Long experience shows that it is wise, if not always characteristic, of revolutionaries generally, to create as little direct, traceable documentary evidence of the detailed planning of their conspiracies as can possibly be managed. With the surrenders of Nowlein and Wilcox on 14 January 1895, the military campaign of the January 1895 Honolulu ‘War’ was over. There is some discrepancy among the limited records the people have of when precisely the Hong Kong chapter of the Xingzhonghui first came into being.
