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18 unusual facts about Boxer Rebellion


Alfredo Acton

Alfredo Acton participated in the occupation of Massawa (1885), the International Squadron against Crete (1897), the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion (1900) and the Italo-Turkish War (1912).

Anton Haus

Returning to a seagoing command, Haus was commander of a corvette during the multinational intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900/01.

Arturo Riccardi

Seeing action with the Italian marines in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901, the Far East Campaign of 1905, and during the First World War, Riccardi was awarded several medals for valor.

Battle of Taku Forts

Battle of Taku Forts (1900) - A successful Allied attack against the forts during the Boxer Rebellion

Beijing cuisine

Before the Boxer Rebellion, the foodservice establishments in Beijing were strictly stratified by the foodservice guild.

Capture of Guam

Lieutenant John Twiggs Myers, later known for his command during the Boxer Rebellion, marched the Marines through the boathouse and lined them up so that the Spanish and native troops were between the Americans and the ocean.

Chauncey Northrop Pond

In the Boxer Rebellion, Jennie's husband, the Rev. Ernest R. Atwater (1865-1900), her four children, Ernestine (born 1889), Mary (b. 1892), Celia (b. circa 1894), and Bertha (b. 1896), and Ernest's second wife, Elizabeth Graham Atwater were all killed.

Chauncey Northrop Pond (1841-1920) was a Congregational minister (ordained in 1866) devoted to missionary efforts in China prior to, and around the time of, the Boxer Rebellion.

Dick's Hotel

Associated with the political movements of the late nineteenth century, especially the growing labour movement, it was also the scene for farewells to contingents from NSW to the Boxer Rebellion and the Boer War.

Ephrem Giesen

In the spring of 1900, as the Boxer Rebellion was unfolding across northern China, Ephrem Giesen was located at Xinzhuang, south of Machang, where a Catholic fortified stronghold had been established.

His first posting in China was the to the South Shanxi mission in 1894, serving there through the period of the Boxer Rebellion until his appointment as vicor apostolic of North Shandong in 1902, moving to Jinan and working with Italian missionaries based in the region.

Esper Ukhtomsky

When the Boxer Rebellion broke out in 1900, Ukhtomsky was dispatched to Peking to offer Russian support against the Western powers who might seek to take advantage of the situation and push into China.

Eugen Binder-Kriegelstein

He subsequently covered the Boxer Rebellion in China (1901–1902), after which he published a book: The Battles of the German Expeditionary Force in China (1902).

HMS Taku

She was one of four captured from the Chinese during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

Madho Rao Scindia

He was appointed Honorary Aide-de-camp to King Edward VII in 1901, in recognition of his support during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

Matthew Goode and Co

He was likewise feared killed in the Boxer Rebellion, in July 1900 and retired to Winnipeg, Canada and were buried at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Nikolai Tretyakov

Promoted to colonel on December 25, 1899, Tretyakov was with the Russian expeditionary forces in the Boxer Rebellion in northern China.

Tappan Square

In 1899, several dozen Oberlin missionaries were murdered during the Boxer Rebellion, led by a group of Chinese nationalists.


Assunta Secondary School

The school was named in the memory of Sister Assunta, a nun who tended to smallpox victims in Beijing, China during the Boxer Rebellion.

Charles Denby, Jr.

In 1900, he was appointed as secretary general of the provisional government in Tientsin, China during the Boxer Rebellion, and then from 1902 to 1905 he served as the chief foreign adviser to the Viceroy of Zhili, Yuan Shikai.

China: The Roots of Madness

The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American's perspective, covering 170 years of China's political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution.

Fort Liscum

On September 6, 1900, the post was named Fort Liscum in honor of Colonel Emerson H. Liscum, who had died July 13, 1900 in Tianjin, China leading the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Regiment as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance to put down the Boxer Rebellion.

Henry Grattan Guinness

Dr. Gershom Whitfield Guinness was a medical missionary to China who escaped the Boxer Rebellion and went on to found the first hospital in Honan south of the Yellow River.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Shiba Gorō

As a colonel in 1900, Shiba was military attaché at the Japanese legation during the Boxer Rebellion.

SMS Brandenburg

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Chinese nationalists laid siege to the foreign embassies in Peking and murdered Baron Clemens von Ketteler, the German minister.

Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

Her best known statue is The Hiker, a monument commemorating the soldiers who fought in the wars of the United States' turn of the 20th Century Manifest Destiny territorial expansion, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Boxer Rebellion.

USS Don Juan de Austria

From 5 June 1900 to 18 October 1900 Don Juan de Austria was anchored off Canton, China, to protect American interests during the Boxer Rebellion.

Walter Hillier

A stone memorial was erected to Hillier and to a British military officer at Shan-hai-Kwan to recognise the protection afforded to Chinese during the times following the Boxer Rebellion.

Yongle Encyclopedia

The second copy was gradually dissipated and lost from the late 18th century onwards, until the roughly 800 volumes remaining were burnt in a fire started by Chinese forces attacking the neighboring British legation, or were looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance forces during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.