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The siege lasted 55 days, marked by intense combat and a brief truce, until an international relief force arrived from the coast, defeated the Qing forces, and lifted the siege. The failure of the siege and the subsequent occupation of Peking by foreign powers significantly weakened the Boxer Rebellion, leading to its eventual suppression and ...
The Battle of Peking (Chinese: 北京之戰), or historically the Relief of Peking (Chinese: 北京解圍戰), was the battle fought on 14–15 August 1900 in Beijing, in which the Eight-Nation Alliance relieved the siege of the Peking Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion.
The Siege of the Legations was lifted on August 14 by a multi-national army, the Eight-Nation Alliance, which marched to Beijing from the coast and defeated the Chinese army in a series of battles, including the Battle of Peking. Of the 900 foreign nationals, including 400 soldiers, who took refuge in the Legation Quarter, 55 soldiers and 13 ...
[90] [non-primary source needed] The Chinese did not attempt to advance their positions on the Tartar Wall for the remainder of the siege. [91] [non-primary source needed] Sir Claude MacDonald said 13 July was the "most harassing day" of the siege. [92] The Japanese and Italians in the Fu were driven back to their last defence line.
The Eight-Nation Alliance was a multinational military coalition that invaded northern China in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion, with the stated aim of relieving the foreign legations in Beijing, which was being besieged by the popular Boxer militiamen, who were determined to remove foreign imperialism in China.
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 American epic historical war film dramatizing the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Beijing (then still Peking, in English) during the Boxer Uprising, which took place in China in the summer of 1900.
Battle of Zhongdu (1215), between the Mongols and the Jurchen Jin dynasty; Battle of Dadu (1368), Ming dynasty army captured Yuan capital Dadu; Defense of Beijing (1449), Ming dynasty successfully defended invasion against Oirat Mongols; Battle of Beijing (1644), between the Ming dynasty and rebel Li Zicheng; 1860, during the Second Opium War
Francis Dunlap Gamewell (August 31, 1857, Camden, South Carolina – August 14, 1950, Clifton Springs, New York) was a Methodist missionary in China. He was the chief of the Fortifications Committee in the Siege of the Legations during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and was acclaimed as one of the heroes of the siege.