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The Allied Invasion by England and France.
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This invasion
originated from a very trifling matter. It was merely owing
to the incident of the British boat Arrow and the murder of
a French priest that the British and French Imperialists
sent their allied troops to wage war against us. In 1857
they took Canton and Taku, and the Tientsin Treaties were
made. In 1860 they again attacked Tientsin and Peking, and
the Peking Treaty was enacted with the result that a portion
of Kowloon was ceded to England, an indemnity of $8,000,000
was paid to England and France, and Newch.ang, Chefoo,
Formosa, Chiu-chow, Tam Shui, King Chow, Nanking, Kiu-kiang,
Chin-kiang, Hankow and Tientsin were opened as commercial ports. Thus all the key positions of North Central and
South China became areas under the administration of
foreigner, and thus China suffered still greater loss. Invasion of the 8 Allies. This war was still more terrible, and England was the principal people concerned in it. The Boxers cherished a deep hatred against the foreign Imperialists for their cruel actions, and rose in opposition against them.
This led to the attack by the allied forces of
the 8 Powers an Peking, with the result that the unequal treaties of the San Tsau year (1901) were made, an indemnity
of 450,000,000 taels was to be paid and an area at Peking was granted for the erection of legations. Henceforth the Peking Government became subject to the influence of the Powers. The British Imperialists had also actually helped
the Manchu Government with arms and ammunition to suppress
the Tai Ping revolution. On the establishment of the Republic, the British Imperialists only recognized it on the condition that their aggressive policy against Tibet was accepted. Later they formed the Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple
and Fivefold consortiums, and made an economic invasion on
China on a large scale. England again proposed that any
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