At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to excessive bullying by foreign powers, domestic people were generally resentful, which led to the rise of the Boxer Rebellion. With the call of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries", they pulled out telephone poles, destroyed railways, burned churches, killed foreigners and killed parishioners.
The Qing government believed that the Boxer Rebellion could be invulnerable and kill all foreigners, thus declaring war on the Eight Powers on May 25th, the 26th year of Guangxu (1900).
In order to put out the anti-imperialist struggle of the Boxer Rebellion and expand its aggression against China, the British vice admiral Seymour led the allied forces of Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria to invade Beijing from Tianjin Concession on June 1900.
In the end, China fell into an unprecedented disaster, and the risks were divided up. 1900 is the year of boxer in China lunar calendar. /kloc-the turmoil that broke out more than 0/00 years ago was also called "the change of the country of the boxer" and "the national disaster of the boxer" by the Chinese.
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The atrocities of the invaders:
As soon as Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, he burned, killed and looted crazily. All the houses where the Boxer set up the altar were burned down. The invading army also slaughtered the people of China everywhere and shot at everyone, causing "corpses everywhere, rotting and fumigating the sky."
The invading army openly let the troops rob for three days, but in fact, the shameful invaders never stopped robbing until the day they left. A large number of historical relics have been destroyed and looted.
Almost all of the Yongle Dadian collected by the Hanlin Academy was lost, and more than 46,000 rare books such as other subsets of classics and history were lost. After this looting, China's "savings since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, from legal relics to national treasures, were swept away."
The Russian invaders were particularly cruel in this robbery. All the valuables that can be taken away from the palace are taken away, and all the things that can't be taken away are broken. It is estimated that the total value of the property plundered by Eight-Nation Alliance is no less than several billion taels of silver.
After the imperialist powers plundered Beijing crazily, they forced the Qing government to sign the "Xin Chou Treaty" on September 7, 190 1.
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People's Daily Online-1900 August 14 Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing.