Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion
(義和團運動)

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:

Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Seymour Expedition:

Sir Edward Seymour
Gaselee Expedition:

Colonel Emerson H. Liscum †
Occupation Force:

Alfred von Waldersee
Russian Occupation of Manchuria:

Aleksey Kuropatkin

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

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

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yìhétuán Yùndòng

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yìhétuán Yùndòng

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