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Siege of the International Legations

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

Part of Boxer Rebellion

Contemporaries On the map

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

Sides

Eight-Nation Alliance

United Kingdom
United States
Russian Empire
Japan
France
Italy
German Empire
Austria-Hungary
Netherlands
Belgium
Nikolai Linevich military commander Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev military commander Adna Chaffee military commander

Qing China and Boxers

Imperial China
Empress Dowager Cixi military commander Ronglu military commander

Also involved 1

Claude Maxwell MacDonald participant · Eight-Nation Alliance