Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion
Part of the century of humiliation
A company of Boxers in 1901
Date 18 October 1899 – 7 September 1901 Location North China, Yellow Sea Result Eight-Nation Alliance victory
Belligerents
Eight Nation Alliance:  British Empire  Russia  Japan  France  Germany  United States  Italy  Austria-Hungary  Netherlands  Spain  Belgium Mutual Protection of Southeast China (after 1900)	Boxer movement  Qing dynasty (before 1900)
Commanders and leaders
Legations: Claude MacDonald Seymour Expedition: Edward Seymour Gaselee Expedition: Alfred Gaselee Coriolano Ponza di San Martino Vincenzo Garioni Yevgeni Alekseyev Nikolai Linevich Fukushima Yasumasa Yamaguchi Motomi Henri-Nicolas Frey Adna Chaffee Occupation Force: Alfred von Waldersee Occupation of Manchuria: Aleksey Kuropatkin Paul von Rennenkampf Pavel Mishchenko Mutual Protection of Southeast China: Yuan Shikai Li Hongzhang Xu Yingkui Liu Kunyi Zhang Zhidong	Boxers: Cao Futian  Zhang Decheng † Imperial government: Emperor Guangxu Empress Dowager Cixi Li Bingheng † Yuxian  Commander in Chief: Ronglu Hushenying: Zaiyi Tenacious Army: Nie Shicheng † Resolute Army: Ma Yukun Song Qing Jiang Guiti Gansu Army: Dong Fuxiang Ma Fulu † Ma Fuxiang Ma Fuxing
Strength
Seymour Expedition: 2,100–2,188[1] Gaselee Expedition: 18,000[1] China Relief Expedition: 2,500[2] Russian troops: 100,000[3]–200,000[4]	Boxers: 100,000–300,000 Qing troops: 100,000[5]

The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising in China from 2 November 1900 to 7 September 1901. It was led by the Boxers, a group of Chinese against the huge amount of western influence in China.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Harrington (2001), p. 29. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFHarrington2001 (help)
2. ↑ "China Relief Expedition (Boxer Rebellion), 1900–1901". Veterans Museum and Memorial Center. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
3. ↑ Pronin, Alexander (7 November 2000). Война с Желтороссией (in Russian). Kommersant. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
4. ↑ Hsü, Immanuel C. Y. (1978). "Late Ch'ing Foreign Relations, 1866–1905". In Fairbank, John King (ed.). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-521-22029-3.
5. ↑ Xiang (2003), p. 248. sfnp error: no target: CITEREFXiang2003 (help)