[Fanfiction Countryhumans x OC] Let the flame paint your soul
Virginieforlife
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Based on the event 55 days at Peking.
(Starvation widespread in China, affecting more than 100 million peasants by the summer of 1900. Approximately a thousand foreigners from various western industrialized countries have exploited their positions inside Peking's legations, seeking control of the weakened nation. The Boxers opposed the westerners and the Christian religion and planned to drive them out).
"The year was Nineteen-Hundred
T'is worth remembering
The men who lived through
Fifty-five days at Peking
T'was called the Boxer Insurrection
A bloody, Oriental war
Against all nations
Of the Diplomatic Corps
The flags of France and Britain
How they fluttered in the breeze
The Italian and the Russian
And the flag of the Japanese
Then came the sound of bugles
The rolling drums of fury
And the streets of Peking
Were as empty as a tomb..."
Warning: Colonialism, War, Adult Content. Please no political comments.