Second Intervention

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Second Intervention
4-14 August 1860
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: route from Tientsin to Peking, 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
Links:
Category: Second Intervention

This was the second attempt at the relief of Peking in the 3rd China War.

British Contingent

3,000 troops under Lieutenant-General Alfred Gaselee

  • Four Coys Royal Welsh Fusiliers
  • 1st Bengal Lancers
  • 12th Field Battery
  • Hong Kong Artillery
  • Naval guns
  • 1st Sikhs
  • 7th Rajputs
  • 24th Bengal Infantry

External Links

Boxer Rebellion Wikipedia
Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India - Advance of the Allies from Tientsin www.archive.org