Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion
Part of	the Century of humiliation
Date	18 october 1899 - 7 September 1901 (1 year, 10 months, 20 days)
Location	Northern Chinaball Yellow Sea
Causes	Escalating tensions caused Chinese to turn against "foreign devils" who scrambled for power in the late 19th century The Western success at controlling Chinaball Growing anti-imperialist sentiment Extreme weather conditions
Result	Allies victory Boxer Protocol signed
Belligerents
Eight-Nation Alliance: UKball Australiaball New South Walesball South Australiaball Victoriaball New Zealandball Indiaball Russiaball Japanball Franceball Germanyball USAball Italyball Austria-Hungaryball Netherlandsball Belgiumball Spainball Chinaball (until 1900) Mutual Defense of Southeast Chinaball (From 1900)
Boxersball Chinaball (From 1900)
Commanders
legations: Claude MacDonald Seymour Expedition: Edward Seymour Gaselee Expedition: Alfred Gaselee 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 Defense of Southeast China: Yuan Shikai Li Hongzhang Xu Yingkui Liu Kunyi Zhang Zhidong
Boxers: Cao Futian † Zhang Decheng (until 1900) † Ni Zanqing Zhu HongdengQing dynasty: Empress Dowager Cixi Li Bingheng (until 1900) † Yuxian † Commander in Chief: Ronglu hushenying: Zaiyi Tenacious Army: Nie Shicheng (until 1900) † Resolute Army: Ma Yukun Song Qing Jiang Guiti Gansu Army: Dong Fuxiang Ma Fulu (until 1900) † Ma Fuxiang Ma Fuxing
Strength
Seymour Expedition: 2,100–2,188 Gaselee Expedition: 18,000 China Relief Expedition: 2,500 Russian army in Manchuria: 100,000-200,000
Boxersball: 100,000-300,000 Boxers and Red Lanterns Qingball: 100,000 Imperial troops Provincial armies Gansu Army Tenacious Army Resolute Army Metropolitan Eight Banners Centre Division Hushenying Peking Field Force
Notes
32,000 Chinese Christians and 200 Western missionaries killed by Chinese Boxers in Northern China 100,000 total deaths in the conflict (both civilian and military included)

Boxer Rebellion or Yihetuan Movement was a nationalistic war in China.

History

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Qingball was "colonized" by a lot of Western countries. When in 1899, Qingball and its followers (the Boxer Army) decided to stop this, inspired by a (nationalistic) Chinese movement, it was destroyed by its "colonizators".

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