✦ History

Part of Boxer Rebellion

Siege of the International Legations

June 20 – August 14, 1900 · Siege of the International Legations

Result Allied victory

Diplomats, guards and Chinese Christians held the Beijing legation quarter for 55 days.

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Adna Chaffee military commander Nikolai Linevich military commander Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev military commander Edward Hobart Seymour military commander Alfred von Waldersee military commander Claude Maxwell MacDonald military commander Alfred Gaselee military commander
Empress Dowager Cixi military commander Li Hongzhang military commander Ronglu military commander Zaiyi military commander Dong Fuxiang military commander

Strength and losses

Civilian deaths
13

Units

Legation guards (1900)
Wuwei Corps (1900)