Anglo-American Forces in the Boxer Uprising
This web page contains links to the content of the exhibit pages for the exhibit
'Anglo-American Forces in the Boxer Uprising' by Al Kugel.
On 9 June 1900 members of the Chinese anti-foreign movement, the 'Boxers', supported by conservatives in the Chinese Imperial court, besieged the legations in Peking.
Foreign forces in North China were inadequate to reach Peking or to secure the region around it, so a major international military relief operation was organized, involving 8 nations.
Just over 5,000 American troops were rushed to North China, most from the ongoing war in the Philippines.
The peak British troop strength was approximately 30,000. Nearly all of the British forces were Indians, but tiny contingents were supplied by the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
This exhibit was created by, and is the property of the late Al Kugel, and is being supplied by his heirs as a courtesy to the Military Postal History Society. (See the MPHS webpage) The Military Postal History Society (MPHS) is a non-profit organization for philatelists and stamp collectors interested in the collecting and studying of the postal aspects of all wars and military actions of all countries, including soldiers' campaign covers, naval mail, occupation and internment covers, patriotics, propaganda, V-mail, censorship and similar related material.
These exhibit page scans were made from black and white photocopies of the original exhibits. The available photocopies only account for 108 exhibit pages, and it appears that some pages may be missing.
The photocopy PDF files were re-scanned with the ocrmypdf program, which makes them fully text-searchable.
Those exhibits were created by Al Kugel many years ago, and are presented here for historical and research purposes. As far as the MPHS is aware, there are no color scans available of these older exhibit pages, nor for any of the illustrated postal history items.
This exhibit, created by the late Al Kugel, is made up of 10 frames, each frame containing 16 pages. Due to their size, each frame is available as a separate searchable PDF file. (See the PDF information page for additional help with this file format.)
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