18 Facts About Boxer Rebellion

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Boxer Rebellion, known as the Boxer Uprising, the Boxer Insurrection, or the Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, anti-colonial, and anti-Christian uprising in 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 because many of its members had practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".

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The Qing dynasty's handling of the Boxer Rebellion further weakened their control over China, and led the dynasty to attempt major governmental reforms in the aftermath.

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Boxer Rebellion announced that his goal was to "Revive the Qing and destroy the foreigners" .

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Early growth of the Boxer Rebellion movement coincided with the Hundred Days' Reform, in which progressive Chinese officials, with support from Protestant missionaries, persuaded the Guangxu Emperor to institute sweeping reforms.

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In spring 1900, the Boxer Rebellion movement spread rapidly north from Shandong into the countryside near Beijing.

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Boxer Rebellion soon ordered the Imperial army to attack the foreign forces.

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Boxer Rebellion's force was surrounded by Imperial troops and Boxers, attacked nearly around the clock, and at the point of being overrun.

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Boxer Rebellion's aide managed to escape the attack and carried word of the baron's death back to the diplomatic compound.

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The Chinese army and Boxer Rebellion irregulars besieged the Legation Quarter from 20 June to 14 August 1900.

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Chinese Honghuzi bandits of Manchuria, who had fought alongside the Boxers in the war, did not stop when the Boxer rebellion was over, and continued guerrilla warfare against the Russian occupation up to the Russo-Japanese war when the Russians were defeated by Japan.

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On 7 September 1901, the Qing imperial court agreed to sign the "Boxer Rebellion Protocol" known as Peace Agreement between the Eight-Nation Alliance and China.

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Western Catholic missionaries forced Mongols to give up their land to Han Chinese Catholics as part of the Boxer Rebellion indemnities according to Mongol historian Shirnut Sodbilig.

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Boxer Rebellion dispatched the five thousand troops without consulting Congress, let alone obtaining a declaration of war, to fight the Boxers who were supported by the Chinese government.

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The historian Joseph Esherick comments that "confusion about the Boxer Rebellion Uprising is not simply a matter of popular misconceptions" since "there is no major incident in China's modern history on which the range of professional interpretation is as great".

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Boxer Rebellion delivered "scathing criticism" of the Boxers' "anti-foreignism and obscurantism".

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Boxer Rebellion loves his country better than he does the countries of other people.

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In recent years, the Boxer Rebellion question has been debated in the People's Republic of China.

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The earliest use of the term "Boxer Rebellion" is contained in a letter which was written in Shandong in September 1899 by missionary Grace Newton.

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