Siege of Peking, Boxer Rebellion: "I'll Try, Sir"! Department of the Army Poster

Print(reproduction) of the original "I'll Try Sir," U.S. Army in Action historical painting, depicting the United States Army during the 14th August 1900 Allied Relief Expedition assault on the outer walls of Peking in China during the Boxer Rebellion. (Copied from Wikimedia Commons, a freely licensed media file repository.)

#124 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College, China (Qingdao, China's German City)

May 23rd 2010
Qingdao is a smaller seaside city of 2 Million inhabitants on the N.E. sea-coast of Shandong Province, China. At the end of the 19th Century, an ambitious Germany was looking for a place in China to continue its colonial expansion. That moment arrived, when the Chinese Boxer Rebels killed two German Catholic priests in 1897. German troops were sent in to establish their presence in Qingdao, and ... read more

Asia » China » Shandong » Qingdao

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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