In 1900 in China a peasant movement commonly known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppressors. The paramount event of the Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the legations in Peking, which was called by the New York Sunwith only modest hyperbolethe most exciting episode ever known to civilization. In isolated Peking, a horde of brightly dressed, acrobatic, antiWestern and antiChristian Boxers surrounded the fortified diplomatic legation compound, and rumors about the torture and murder of 900 Western ...
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In 1900 in China a peasant movement commonly known as the Boxers rose up and tried to destroy its Western oppressors. The paramount event of the Boxer Rebellion was the siege of the legations in Peking, which was called by the New York Sunwith only modest hyperbolethe most exciting episode ever known to civilization. In isolated Peking, a horde of brightly dressed, acrobatic, antiWestern and antiChristian Boxers surrounded the fortified diplomatic legation compound, and rumors about the torture and murder of 900 Western diplomats, soldiers, and missionaries swirled throughout the foreign media.
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