3rd China War

3rd China War
1898-1901
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: China
Combatants:
Eight Nation Alliance	Righteous Harmony Society Qing Empire
Result: Allied victory
Medals: 3rd China War Medal Clasps: Taku Forts, Defence of Legations, Relief of Pekin
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Category: 3rd China War

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Also known as the The Boxer Rebellion.
The Summary of this article is only concerned with the role of British India in the conflict.

Summary

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Yìhétuán), known in English as Boxers, was a peasant organisation in Shandong Province responding to fiscal crises and natural disasters which they blamed on the presence of foreigners in China. Initially suppressed by the Qing dynasty they were later encouraged as part of a movement to expel foreign powers which had imposed an open-door policy on China. Christians were massacred and foreign legations in Peking were besieged.

A relief force under Vice-Admiral Edward Seymour attempted to reach Peking but was forced to turn back. This was followed by an international force, under Lieutenant-General Alfred Gaselee, called the Eight-Nation Alliance which raised the legation siege and occupied Peking. The Qing government was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol in September 1901 and pay a huge indemnity to the allied powers.

Related articles

Seymour's Column
Second Intervention

External links

• Boxer Rebellion Wikipedia
  
• Boxer Rebellion (Third China War) 1900 Regiments.org, an archived website.
• Filming, faking and propaganda: The origins of the war film, 1897-1902 by Stephen Bottomore 2007. Doctoral thesis Utrecht University now available online. Chapters 12-13 are on the Boxer Uprising. There is a separate section of illustrations and those for Chapters 12-13 are from page 33 of the section.
• Listen to an interview with historian David J Silbey discussing the Boxer Rebellion. June 2013. newbooksnetwork.com
  • Transcribed earlier interview 3/1/2012 with historian David J Silbey discussing the Boxer Rebellion. historynet.com

See below for a book by Silbey.

Historical books online

• "Despatches from China" The London Gazette 5 October 1900 Issue: 27235 Page: 6093

"Despatches from China" The London Gazette 6 November 1900 Issue: 27244 Page: 6759

"Despatches from China" The London Gazette 11 December 1900 Issue: 27255 Page: 8373

"Despatches from Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, Commanding the British Contingent, China Expeditionary Force". The London Gazette 14 May 1901 Issue: 27313 Page: 3273

"Despatches from Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Gaselee, Commanding the British Contingent, China Expeditionary Force" The London Gazette 13 September 1901 Issue: 27354 Page: 6047

• China No1 (1898). Correspondence respecting the Affairs of China presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, April 1898 Archive.org

China No 1 (1900): Further Correspondence respecting the Affairs of China (In continuation of China No 1and 2 (1899). Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty March 1900. HMSO. Archive.org

China No 2 (1900) : Correspondence with the United States Government respecting Foreign Trade in China. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty April 1900. HMSO. Archive.org

China No 3 (1900): Correspondence respecting the Insurrectionary Movement in China Presented to both Houses of Parliament July 1900. HMSO. Archive.org

China No 1 (1901) Correspondence respecting the Disturbances in China (in continuation of China No. 3, 1900). Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, February 1901. HMSO. Archive.org

China No 3 (1901) Further Correspondence respecting Events at Peking. In continuation of China No 4 (1900). Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, April 1901. HMSO. Archive.org

China No 7 (1901) Correspondence respecting the Imperial Railway of North China. Presented to both houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, August 1901. HMSO. Archive.org

• Official Account of the Military Operations in China, 1900-1901 compiled by Major E. W. M. Norie; edited by Intelligence Department, War Office, published 1903 probably on a 'Confidential' basis, was reprinted 1995 and is available in a further reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.com located in Military Books (locate through the main Search)/China.
• Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India - Events in China up to 1900 www.archive.org
  
• [Military Operations in China]. Actual title: Annual Reports of the [USA] War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. Report of the Lieutenant-General commanding the Army, in Seven Parts. Part 7. Elsewhere this report is stated to be Part 9. 1900 Archive.org
• Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China by War Department [USA] July 1901. Archive.org
• World-crisis in China, 1900. A short account of the outbreak of the war with the "Boxers", and ensuing foreign complications by Allen S Will of the Baltimore Sun 1900 Archive.org. With a map of China.
• The Boxer Rising : a History of the Boxer Trouble in China Reprinted from the Shanghai Mercury 2nd Edition 1901 Archive.org
• "Three Prime Causes of the Boxer Uprising", an article from The Advocate of Peace Volume 63 May 1901, pages 103-104. Archive.org
• On Active Service with the Chinese Regiment : a Record of the Operations of the First Chinese Regiment in North China from March to October 1900 by Captain A A S Barnes. First edition, 1902, Second edition, revised and enlarged, 1902 Archive.org.
• St. George and the Chinese Dragon. An Account of the Relief of the Pekin Legations by an Officer of the British Contingent by Colonel H B Vaughan 7th Rajputs 1902 Archive.org
• The Land of the Boxers or China under the Allies by Captain Gordon Casserly, Indian Army. 1903 Archive.org
• China 1900 page 520 The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the death of Queen Victoria, Volume VII 1903 Archive.org
• Ordered to China: letters of Wilbur J Chamberlin written from China while under commission from the New York Sun during the Boxer uprising of 1900 and the international complications which followed 1904 Archive.org
• The World's Navies in the Boxer Rebellion (China 1900) by Lieut. C C Dix, R.N. 1905 Archive.org
• "Chapter VIII In the Far East: The Boxer Rising" page 128 Fifty Years in the Royal Navy by Admiral Sir Percy Scott 1919. Archive.org.
• Die kaiserliche Marine während der Wirren in China, 1900-1901 1903 Archive.org. Text in German, includes some appendices in English and French. There appear to be no maps.
• The Fighting in North China : (up to the Fall of Tientsin City) by G Gipps, Midshipman H M S Orlando 1901 Archive.org
• Diary of the Siege of the Peking Legations, June to August, 1900 by William Meyrick Hewlett, Student Interpreter at the British Legation, Peking 1900 Archive.org
• The Siege of the Peking Legations, being the Diary of the Rev. Roland Allen 1901 Archive.org
• Beleaguered in Peking: the Boxer's War Against the Foreigner by Robert Coltman Jr M D [Surgeon in China] 1901 Archive.org
• Story of the Siege Hospital in Peking, and Diary of Events from May to August, 1900 by Jessie Ransome, Deaconess, Church of England Mission, Peking. 1901 Archive.org
• A Diary of the Siege of the Legations in Peking 
during the Summer of 1900 
by Nigel Oliphant. 1901 Archive.org
• The Heart of Pekin : Bishop A. Favier's Diary of the Siege, May-August, 1900 edited by J. Freri. 1901. Hathi Trust Digital Library
• Indiscreet Letters from Peking : being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900--the year of great tribulation edited by B L Putnam Weale (pseudonym) 1910, first published 1907 Archive.org. Bertram Lenox Simpson Wikipedia which states of the book "two scholars have cast doubt on its reliability" and it is "No straightforward memoir" but a "stylized account".
• Behind the Scenes in Peking, being Experiences during the Siege of the Legations by Mary Hooker 1910 Archive.org
• The Siege of the Peking Legations by J H Macoun 1913 Archive.org
• China 1900 page 195 My Service Days: India, Afghanistan, Suakim '85, and China by Maj.-Gen. Sir Norman Stewart 1908 Archive.org
• China 1900, page 207 The Commission of H.M.S. "Terrible," 1898-1902 by George Crowe 1903 Archive.org
• China, travels and investigations in the "Middle Kingdom" - a study of its civilization and possibilities; together with An account of the Boxer War, the relief of the legations, and the re-establishment of Peace by James Harrison Wilson [United States Army] 3rd edition, revised 1901 Archive.org.

"The Boxer War in China" page 517 Under the old flag; recollections of military operations in the war for the Union, the Spanish war, the Boxer rebellion, Volume II by James Harrison Wilson 1912 Archive.org

• The Chinese War of 1900-1901 pages 529-656, Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Volume VII. With Illustrations. c 1901 Archive.org
• "The Boxer Wars" page 42 China, Past and Present by Edward Harper Parker 1903 Archive.org
• The story of China and her neighbors : their manners, customs, life and history, from the earliest times to the present, including the Boxer uprising, massacre of foreigners and operations of the allied powers by Trumbull White and James P Boyd 1900 Archive.org
• International Law and Diplomacy of the Boxer Uprising in China by John Marshall Lowie 1909 Archive.org
• The Boxer Rebellion : a Political and Diplomatic Review by Paul H Clements 1915 Archive.org
• The International Relations of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse. (I The Period of Conflict, 1834-1860. II. The Period of Submission, 1861-1893). III. The period of Subjection, 1894-1911. Published 1910 to 1918.

(Volume I (probably 2nd edition), Vol. I 2nd file, but missing title page (appears to have been author/publishing decision); Volume II); Volume III All Archive.org.

• China and the Occident; the origin and development of the Boxer movement by George Nye Steiger 1927 HathiTrust Digital Library
• The Boxer Uprising: a Background Study by Victor Purcell 1963. Archive.org Lending Library.
• Morrison Of Peking by Cyril Pearl. First published c 1967. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. The subject was also known as Chinese Morrison, and was The Times correspondent in Peking.
• The Boxer Rebellion by Christopher Martin 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The Boxer Rebellion; anti-foreign terror seizes China, 1900 by Irving Werstein 1971. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Cultures in Collision : the Boxer Rebellion by William J. Duiker 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David Silbey 2012. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• "The China Medal of 1900", page 161 The Medal Collector: A Guide to Naval, Military, Air-Force, and Civil Medals and Ribbons by Stanley C Johnson 1921 Archive.org
• Bronze tablets erected to commemorate the China Relief Expedition of 1900. USA servicemen. Archive.org
• Massacres of Christians by Heathen Chinese and Horrors of the Boxers by Harold Irwin Cleveland 1900 Archive.org
• Chinese Horrors and Persecutions of the Christians : containing a full account of the great insurrection in China : atrocities of the "Boxers" ... together with the complete history of China down to the present time by Henry Davenport Northrop 1900 Archive.org
• China and the Boxers. A short history of the Boxer outbreak, with two chapters on the sufferings of missionaries and a closing one on the outlook by Rev Z Chas. Beals 1901 Archive.org
• The China Martyrs of 1900. 
A Complete Roll of the Christian Heroes Martyred in China in 1900, with Narratives of Survivors 
compiled and edited by Robert Coventry Forsyth 1904 Archive.org
• A thousand miles of miracle in China : a personal record of God's delivering power from the hands of the imperial Boxers of Shan-si by Archibald E Glover, of the Chinese Inland Mission 11th Edition 1919 (first published 1904)
• China through the stereoscope; a journey through the Dragon Empire at the time of the Boxer Uprising by James Ricalton. 1901 Archive.org. Text only, no images.

• The maps are not included in the book file, but are available from the MSU Museum and also from the University of Toronto.
• Some stereoscopic images and more tepapa.govt.nz Museum of New Zealand

The Boxer Uprising : Cheefoo, Taku, Tien-tsin : a part of Underwood & Underwood's stereoscopic tour through China by James Ricalton 1902 Text only , no images, in respect of 26 stereographs. With 3 maps (at rear of volume)

• "The Countless Stones" by Major General Sir George Macmunn page 119 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 211 January-June 1922. Archive.org.
• Fiction
  • With The Allies To Pekin: a Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G A Henty 1904. An adventure story for younger readers. Archive.org