Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. He then took part in the sinking of war junks, the Batt
Sir Edward Seymour
Seymour (third from left) with Li Hongzhang, the Qing dynasty's main negotiator during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900
Seymour's battered force arrives back in Tianjin
Boxer Rebellion
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The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising, Boxer Movement, Yihetuan Movement, or Boxer War, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 a
Edward Seymour (Royal Navy officer)
…of the Channel Squadron and then Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves. After that he became Commander-in-Chief, China Station. During the Boxer Rebellion, he led an expedition of 2,000 sailors and marines from Western and Japanese warships to relieve the besieged diplomatic legations in Peking. The…
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Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1970 068 45, China, Boxeraufstand, Alfred Graf v. Waldersee
Boxers around 1900
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