Defence of Yingkou
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The Battle of Yingkou was a battle where Chinese forces battled against the invading Russian army in the Boxer Rebellion
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during the Boxer Rebellion
, battles between Chinese and foreigners were in Manchuria were exclusively between Chinese and Russians. The Russians were the sole force attacking Yingkou, a strategic port.
Yingkou was divided into a foreign settlement and a Chinese city. Mishchenko had to engaged his reserved troops to win the fight. When the Russians seize the city, a number of Boxers and Chinese Imperial troops managed to pull off an evacuation. A moat, precipatation, and mud hampered the movement of Russian troops and their guns.
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...
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Battle
Unlike the battles in China properChina proper
China proper or Eighteen Provinces was a term used by Western writers on the Qing Dynasty to express a distinction between the core and frontier regions of China. There is no fixed extent for China proper, as many administrative, cultural, and linguistic shifts have occurred in Chinese history...
during the Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...
, battles between Chinese and foreigners were in Manchuria were exclusively between Chinese and Russians. The Russians were the sole force attacking Yingkou, a strategic port.
Yingkou was divided into a foreign settlement and a Chinese city. Mishchenko had to engaged his reserved troops to win the fight. When the Russians seize the city, a number of Boxers and Chinese Imperial troops managed to pull off an evacuation. A moat, precipatation, and mud hampered the movement of Russian troops and their guns.