The Boxer Rebellion Have you ever heard about the boxer rebellion? The boxer rebellion started on November 2nd 1899 and was a rebellion was aimed at expelling all foreign powers from china, using violent force. This rebellion would target Christians and foreigner and that would affect China even more. The rebellion would cause of many death and would catch the attention of western powers and ultimately ending the Quig dynasty. The cause of the rebellion would date back to the mid 1800’s during the opium wars. The opium war was between Britain and china over the opium trade. The chines lost this war and suffered great casualties. This would affect china because foreign countries seized control of land causing overcrowding and famine. Peasants
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The boxers would set out killing anyone who followed or promoted Christianity. “Not only were missionaries killed, but also numerous Chinese pastors lost their lives as well as more than 32,000”( The Alliance 1). In the summer of 1900 the boxer rebellers targeted Beijing. This would be a major attack on the feigners and they planned to seize it. “the foreign compound in Beijing where all of the foreign diplomats and many of the foreign business people live and in the early summer of 1900 they lay siege to this foreign compound” (PBS 1). Their motives were to slaughter everyone who foreign or plan to defend foreigners. Witness Luella Mine descries he experience, she says “About ten o'clock the most horrible noise began in the southern city, just on the opposite side of the city wall. It was a horde of Boxers going through their rites, burning incense, crying, "Kill the foreign devils! Kill the secondary foreign devils!”( A Prisoner of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900). There lives were at danger and this sent foreign powers into a panic and forced them to take action. The Boxers would face a retaliation that would change china …show more content…
He would send U.S. troops to china and fight alongside Germany, Britain, japan, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, and Italy, to create the crushing force of the Eight-Nation Alliance. “Foreign forces won simply because there were 20,000 of them, they had overwhelming power, particularly fire power”(PBS 1). Foreign counties would have no mercy on those who rebelled against them, and set out to seek revenge. They would kill started bending people and killing in a brutal ways to strike fear into the hearts of the rebellers. They act was to make sure nothing like this would happen again; and on the 14th of august 1900 foreign forces would regain control over Beijing, driving any other rebellers westward. In September 1901 as a repercussion the chines would agree to sign the Boxer Protocol. “By terms of the agreement, forts protecting Beijing were to be destroyed, officials involved in the uprising were to be punished, foreign stationed troops in Beijing for their defense, China was prohibited from importing arms for two years and it agreed to pay more than $330 million in reparations to the foreign nations involved”(History 1). This would strengthen the grip of foreign powers in china. The boxer rebellion started on November 2nd 1899 in china. Successfully they aimed at expelling all foreign powers from china, through violent attacks. Stopped by the Eight- Nation Alliance their plan
The boxers would set out killing anyone who followed or promoted Christianity. “Not only were missionaries killed, but also numerous Chinese pastors lost their lives as well as more than 32,000”( The Alliance 1). In the summer of 1900 the boxer rebellers targeted Beijing. This would be a major attack on the feigners and they planned to seize it. “the foreign compound in Beijing where all of the foreign diplomats and many of the foreign business people live and in the early summer of 1900 they lay siege to this foreign compound” (PBS 1). Their motives were to slaughter everyone who foreign or plan to defend foreigners. Witness Luella Mine descries he experience, she says “About ten o'clock the most horrible noise began in the southern city, just on the opposite side of the city wall. It was a horde of Boxers going through their rites, burning incense, crying, "Kill the foreign devils! Kill the secondary foreign devils!”( A Prisoner of the Boxer Rebellion, 1900). There lives were at danger and this sent foreign powers into a panic and forced them to take action. The Boxers would face a retaliation that would change china …show more content…
He would send U.S. troops to china and fight alongside Germany, Britain, japan, Austria-Hungary, Russia, France, and Italy, to create the crushing force of the Eight-Nation Alliance. “Foreign forces won simply because there were 20,000 of them, they had overwhelming power, particularly fire power”(PBS 1). Foreign counties would have no mercy on those who rebelled against them, and set out to seek revenge. They would kill started bending people and killing in a brutal ways to strike fear into the hearts of the rebellers. They act was to make sure nothing like this would happen again; and on the 14th of august 1900 foreign forces would regain control over Beijing, driving any other rebellers westward. In September 1901 as a repercussion the chines would agree to sign the Boxer Protocol. “By terms of the agreement, forts protecting Beijing were to be destroyed, officials involved in the uprising were to be punished, foreign stationed troops in Beijing for their defense, China was prohibited from importing arms for two years and it agreed to pay more than $330 million in reparations to the foreign nations involved”(History 1). This would strengthen the grip of foreign powers in china. The boxer rebellion started on November 2nd 1899 in china. Successfully they aimed at expelling all foreign powers from china, through violent attacks. Stopped by the Eight- Nation Alliance their plan