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Boxer rebellion

Boxer Rebellion
(義和團運動)
Russian troops storming Beijing gates 1900.gif Siege of Peking, Boxer Rebellion.jpg
Top: Russian cannons breaking the gates of Peking
Bottom: American troops scale the walls of Peking
Date August 1899 – September 1901
Location Northern China
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Eight-Nation Alliance:
 Yihetuan (Boxers)
 Qing dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Legations:
United Kingdom Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Seymour Expedition:
United Kingdom Sir Edward Seymour
Gaselee Expedition:
United Kingdom Alfred Gaselee
Russian Empire Yevgeni Alekseyev
Russian Empire Nikolai Linevich
Empire of Japan Fukushima Yasumasa
United States Adna Chaffee
United States Colonel Emerson H. Liscum †
Occupation Force:
German Empire Alfred von Waldersee
Russian Occupation of Manchuria:
Russian Empire Aleksey Kuropatkin

Qing dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi
Qing dynasty Li Bingheng
Qing dynasty Yuxian
Commander in Chief:
Qing dynasty Ronglu
Hushenying:
Qing dynasty Prince Duan
Tenacious Army:
Qing dynasty Nie Shicheng †
Resolute Army:
Qing dynasty Ma Yukun ()
Qing dynasty Song Qing
Qing dynasty Jiang Guiti
Gansu Army (Gansu Braves):
Qing dynasty Dong Fuxiang
Qing dynasty Ma Fulu †
Qing dynasty Ma Fuxiang
Qing dynasty Ma Fuxing
Qing dynasty Ma Haiyan
Qing dynasty Ma Biao
Qing dynasty Yao Wang
Boxers:
Yihetuan flag.png Cao Futian

Yihetuan flag.png Ni Zanqing
Strength

Allied forces:
≈50,255 in total

  • Seymour Expedition: – 2,100–2,188
  • Gaselee Expedition: – 18,000
  • Occupation Forces: – c. 50,255
Russian troops in Manchuria: 100,000–200,000
Casualties and losses
2,500 foreign soldiers 2,000 Imperial troops
Unknown number of Boxers
32,000 Chinese Christians plus 200 missionaries killed by Boxers in Northern China
100,000 civilians killed by Boxers in total
5,000 civilians killed by foreign soldiers in total
Boxer Rebellion
Traditional Chinese 義和團運動
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaning Militia United in Righteousness Movement

Qing dynasty Empress Dowager Cixi
Qing dynasty Li Bingheng
Qing dynasty Yuxian
Commander in Chief:
Qing dynasty Ronglu
Hushenying:
Qing dynasty Prince Duan
Tenacious Army:
Qing dynasty Nie Shicheng †
Resolute Army:
Qing dynasty Ma Yukun ()
Qing dynasty Song Qing
Qing dynasty Jiang Guiti
Gansu Army (Gansu Braves):
Qing dynasty Dong Fuxiang
Qing dynasty Ma Fulu †
Qing dynasty Ma Fuxiang
Qing dynasty Ma Fuxing
Qing dynasty Ma Haiyan
Qing dynasty Ma Biao
Qing dynasty Yao Wang
Boxers:
Yihetuan flag.png Cao Futian


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