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| | Along with [[Andrew Morgan]] and [[Emily Roland]], Peter Dyer was an Aerial Corps cadet selected by Capt. [[William Laurence]] as a runner for [[Temeraire]]. | | Along with [[Andrew Morgan]] and [[Emily Roland]], Peter Dyer was an Aerial Corps cadet selected by Capt. [[William Laurence]] as a runner for [[Temeraire]]. |
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| − | With the rest of Temeraire's crew, Dyer journeyed to China and to Africa. As captain, Laurence was responsible for his education and that of the other cadets during these voyages, ensuring that they learned grammar, reading skills, arithmetic, trigonometry and so on. Dyer did a bit better than Roland in this regard. The children also picked up some spoken Chinese along the way, and Temeraire taught them to write Chinese characters so that they could act as his copyists.
| + | After Temeraire's crew left Africa, Peter and [[Emily Roland]] were promoted from Cadet to Ensign. |
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| − | Besides schoolwork, Dyer was exposed to the same hardships and dangers as the other crew members. In China, he and Roland accompanied Laurence, Temeraire and ten adult crew members to Peking on the advice of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Thomas_Staunton George Staunton]. During the attack by a <i>hunhun</i> gang on the Peking residence assigned to the British party, a gang member attacked the party's doctor, [[Keynes]]. Dyer knocked the man down by throwing a large vase at him, and Roland slit his throat with Keynes's tenaculum. (After which they both threw up.)
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| − | In Africa, Roland and Dyer were among the British party captured and taken to [[Mosi-oa-Tunya]], although the party did make an attempt to escape along the way by using Dyer's pocket-knife to cut the ropes they'd been tied with.
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| − | After Temeraire's crew left Africa, Peter and Emily Roland were promoted from Cadet to Ensign.
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| | Dyer did not return to Laurence's crew after he was convicted of treason, and it can be assumed he found or was given another post. | | Dyer did not return to Laurence's crew after he was convicted of treason, and it can be assumed he found or was given another post. |
