The Eight-power Allied Forces Through Foreigners' Camera

China Before the Invasion of the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The Entering of
Envoys and Legation Guards into Beijing

First Setbacks of
the Allied Forces
and the Capture of Tianjin

The Capture of
Beijing by the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The War Before Negotiations and the Signing of the
Protocol of 1901

China Under the Protocol of 1901

Edward Hobart Seymour (1840-1929), vice admiral and commander-in-chief of the British Far East Fleet. At the authorization of the Eight-Power Allied Forces and the consuls of the powers in Tianjin, Seymour led an army of 2,000 that landed at Tanggu, Tianjin, to advance toward Beijing in the morning of June 10, 1900, thus launching a war against China without declaration.