This ** photo was taken in 1900 during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, depicting two captured Boxer soldiers kneeling on the side of the street, waiting for the foreigners to be executed. A group of indifferent bystanders gathered on both sides of the surrounding road, and there were even a few coalition soldiers supervising the scene.
* The insensitivity of the Qing people, as well as the brutality of the invaders, make people feel extremely humiliated and angry!
In 1900, outside the Chaoyang Gate of Beijing, several soldiers of the Great Powers were cruel to the Boxers. The turbans are supposed to be Indian soldiers, and the ones holding butcher knives are Japanese soldiers.
It is recorded that these beastly soldiers killed innocents indiscriminately, without mercy, and even engaged in murderous contests for fun, arbitrarily pointing out innocent people as Boxers and punishing them with death.
*Photographed at the north gate of Tianjin in 1900, it shows the execution of the beheading of Tan Wenhuan, the candidate of Zhili Daotai, by the Eight-Nation Alliance. Tan Wenhuan had united with the Boxers, issued ordnance and participated in the battle to attack the concession and protect the Haiguang Temple, resulting in the death of dozens of foreigners.
After the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, the Qing court ordered Tan Wenhuan to be sent to Tianjin as a punishment target, and was finally executed at the north gate of Tianjin on the 16th day of the 10th lunar month.
This precious photo album taken in 1900 was taken by a British officer who participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance. According to records, this ** shows the scene of the Eight-Nation Coalition killing 27 people at one time.
On August 14, 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, and the corrupt and conservative system of the Qing Dynasty eventually led to its defeat by the coalition forces. The Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor fled, leaving the entire city and people to the coalition forces.
At that time, the Qing army was not armed with spears and broadswords, as the propaganda materials suggested, but in fact they were well-armed and had guns and artillery that were equal or even more advanced than those of the allied forces.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty army and the Boxer army were as many as 200,000, while the army of the Eight-Nation Alliance was only about half of theirs.