Boxer Rebellion Siege
“The Legation Quarter, Beijing, summer 1900. International defenders man sandbag barricades against Boxer assaults. Foreground shows U.S. Marines with Krags and Japanese Naval Landing Force troops in white peering over a wall; midground reveals smoke rising from the British Legation grounds where families shelter; the gold roofs of the Forbidden City rise behind a city in flames under a hard July sun.”
