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.
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