Salvataggio dei diplomatici internazionali e dei cristiani cinesi Pechino (ora Pechino) 1900. Quotidiano francese illustrato le Petit Parisien illustrazione
4306 x 6000 px | 36,5 x 50,8 cm | 14,4 x 20 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1900
Ubicazione:
Peking, Beijing, China
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Original engraving from La Petit Parisien 9 September 1900 Titled La délivrance des Légations à Pékin - Les dernières angoisses. The French Legation itself had been undermined by a bomb placed by the army. 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."
