Peking 1900: The Boxer RebellionBloomsbury Publishing, 2013年3月20日 - 96 頁 In 1900 a violent rebellion swept northern China – the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxers were a secret society who sought to rid their country of the pernicious influence of the foreign powers who had gradually acquired a stranglehold on China. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of Peking. Trapped inside were an assortment of diplomats, civilians and a small number of troops. They were all Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking, had to defend against thousands of hostile Boxers and Imperial troops. It would now be a race against time. Could the rag-tag defenders hold out long enough for the gathering relief force to reach them? This book describes the desperate series of events as the multinational force rushed to their rescue. |
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14 August 17 JUNE allied forces allied troops American Anne S.K. Brown anti-foreign Army arrived artillery attack Austrian Baron von Ketteler barricade battalions besieged bivouac bombardment Boxer Rebellion British Legation compound Brown Military Collection Brown University Library canal capital Captain captured cavalry China Chinese Chinese forces City wall Claude MacDonald command contingent Count von Waldersee defence fire Frederic French garrison Gaselee gate German guard gunboat guns Hanlin HMS Algerine HMS Fame Hsiku Arsenal Imperial City Imperial troops Infantry Italian Japanese Jean July Ketteler killed Langfang Legation Quarter Lieutenant Manchus ministers missionaries Mongol Market murder naval officers Peiho River Peitang Cathedral Peking photograph Prince Tuan Province railway Regiment relief column relief expedition relief force relief of Peking Royal Engineers Royal Marines Russians S.K. Brown Military Sharf Collection shell siege Sir Claude MacDonald Sir Edward Seymour soldiers South Taku Forts Tartar City Tientsin Tongku Tsungli Yamen Tung Pien Volunteers wounded Yangtsun