Peking 1900 Harrington Peter
Peking 1900 Harrington Peter Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of…
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Peking 1900 Harrington Peter
Osprey's study of the violent Boxer Rebellion, which swept northern China in 1900. With the connivance of the Imperial Court they laid siege to the legation quarter of Peking. 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.
They were all Sir Claude Macdonald, the British Minister in Peking, had to defend against thousands of hostile Boxers and Imperial troops. Trapped inside were an assortment of diplomats, civilians and a small number of 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
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