Boxer Rebellion (義和團運動) |
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Top: Russian cannons breaking the gates of Peking Bottom: American troops scale the walls of Peking |
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Belligerents | |||||||
Eight-Nation Alliance: |
Yihetuan (Boxers) Qing China |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Legations: Claude Maxwell MacDonald Seymour Expedition: Sir Edward Seymour Gaselee Expedition: Alfred Gaselee Yevgeni Alekseyev Nikolai Linevich Fukushima Yasumasa Adna Chaffee Emerson H. Liscum † Occupation Force: Alfred von Waldersee Russian Occupation of Manchuria: Aleksey Kuropatkin |
Empress Dowager Cixi |
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Allied intervention forces in Peking:
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
1,000+ foreign troops killed ~3,000 foreign troops wounded unknown disease deaths |
2,000 Imperial troops killed unknown disease deaths unknown captured Unknown number of Boxers |
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32,000 Chinese Christians plus 200 missionaries killed by Boxers in Northern China unknown numbers of civilians killed by Boxers and foreign soldiers |
Boxer Rebellion | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 義和團運動 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | |||||||
Literal meaning | Militia United in Righteousness Movement | ||||||
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Transcriptions | |
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Yìhétuán Yùndòng |
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 (Gansu Braves):
Dong Fuxiang
Ma Fulu †
Ma Fuxiang
Ma Fuxing
Ma Haiyan
Ma Biao
Yao Wang
Boxers:
Cao Futian