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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts ...
The original, at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, in 1906.. The Hiker is a bronze statue created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson.It commemorates the American soldiers who fought in the Spanish–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the Philippine–American War.
Pages in category "American military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total.
USMC Officers, Marine Barracks, Washington D.C., 1896. Then Second Lieutenant Myers is second from the right. The son of Marion Twiggs (daughter of General David E. Twiggs) and West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, later Confederate Quartermaster General Abraham Myers, John Twiggs Myers (known as "Jack" or jokingly, "Handsome Jack", to his friends) was born on January 29, 1871, in ...
Boxer Rebellion naval ships of the United States (9 P) M. Military units and formations of the Boxer Rebellion (22 P) P. People of the Boxer Rebellion (10 C, 16 P)
In the United States, the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion was known as the China Relief Expedition. [42] The United States was able to play a major role in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion largely because of the presence of American forces deployed in the Philippines since the U.S. annexation after the Spanish–American War in 1898. [43]
China Relief Expedition Streamer The Eight-Nation Alliance. The China Relief Expedition was an expedition in China undertaken by the United States Armed Forces to rescue United States citizens, European nationals, and other foreign nationals during the latter years of the Boxer Rebellion, which lasted from 1898 to 1901.