boxer rebellion posted on Sunday, September 25, 2005
The boxers' simmering resentment erupted across the northern provinces of Shantung, Shansi , and Chihli in the summer of 1900
Chanting mobs surrounded the mission stations and dragged out their terrorised occupants
Some they killed on the spot; others they took to boxer temples to be slowly tortured to death. Tens of thousands of chinese converts, protestants and catholic, were murdered - hacked to death, skinned alive, set alight, or buried still living
The foreigners in Peking - nearly 900 men, women, and children from the eighteen most powerful nations in the world - were beseiged in the diplomatic quarter. Established in the 1860s following China's defeat in the war with Britain and France, the quarter was by 1900 a commerical as well as a diplomatic district
The beseiged cooked and ate unappetizing, indigestible meals of rice and horsemeat and were glad of them. Nearly everyone got dysentery. In the heat of the humid Peking summer, thick swarms of black flies and the sickly sweet stench of rotting flesh were everywhere
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The boxers' simmering resentment erupted across the northern provinces of Shantung, Shansi , and Chihli in the summer of 1900
Chanting mobs surrounded the mission stations and dragged out their terrorised occupants
Some they killed on the spot; others they took to boxer temples to be slowly tortured to death. Tens of thousands of chinese converts, protestants and catholic, were murdered - hacked to death, skinned alive, set alight, or buried still living
The foreigners in Peking - nearly 900 men, women, and children from the eighteen most powerful nations in the world - were beseiged in the diplomatic quarter. Established in the 1860s following China's defeat in the war with Britain and France, the quarter was by 1900 a commerical as well as a diplomatic district
The beseiged cooked and ate unappetizing, indigestible meals of rice and horsemeat and were glad of them. Nearly everyone got dysentery. In the heat of the humid Peking summer, thick swarms of black flies and the sickly sweet stench of rotting flesh were everywhere
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