Chinese Boxer Flag ~ 1900
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Reilly's Battery captured this Boxer Unit Flag when they helped lift the siege of the Foreign Legations at Peking, China in August 1900. The Boxers were a mass movement of nationalist Chinese who sought the elimination of all foreigners in China. The name Boxers comes from the beginnings of the movement with Chinese societies that focused on the physical exercise and public demonstrations of martial arts. In the late 1890s the Boxer movement grew rapidly because of unrest caused by a number of factors including; droughts, poor harvests, floods, the spread of Christian missionaries and foreign interference in China. The Boxers began attacking and killing foreigners, Christian missionaries and their Chinese converts in early 1900. By June 20, 1900, the Boxers had surrounded 882 foreign soldiers and civilians in the Legation Quarter in Peking. The siege lasted until August 14th when an international relief force reached the city. The force was comprised of Soldiers, Sailors and Marines from the United States, Japan, Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Austrio-Hungary which soon brought an end to the Boxer Rebellion.
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