French capturing the port of Takou China 1900. French illustrated newspaper Le Petit Parisien illustration
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4217 x 6000 px | 35.7 x 50.8 cm | 14.1 x 20 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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Original engraved front cover from La Petit Parisien 8 July 1900. Info from wiki: The Siege of the International Legations occurred in 1900 in Beijing (Peking), the capital of the Qing Empire, during the Boxer Rebellion. Menaced by the Boxers, an anti-Christian, anti-foreign peasant movement, 900 soldiers, marines and civilians, largely from Europe, Japan, and the United States, and about 2, 800 Chinese Christians took refuge in the Beijing Legation Quarter. The Qing government took the side of the Boxers. The foreigners and Chinese Christians in the Legation Quarter survived a 55-day siege by the Qing Army and the Boxers. The siege was broken by an international military force which marched from the coast of China, defeated the Qing army, and occupied Beijing. The siege was called by the New York Sun "the most exciting episode ever known to civilization."