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The Battle of Tientsin, or the Relief of Tientsin, occurred on 13–14 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in Northern China. A multinational military force , representing the Eight-Nation Alliance , rescued a besieged population of foreign nationals in the city of Tianjin ( Postal : Tientsin) by defeating the Chinese Imperial army and Boxers.
Street in the German concession on the eve of World War I The German Boxer War Memorial, 1905 After Germany acquired the Kiautschou Bay region in 1898 with a 99-year lease, a further concession was negotiated for the Tianjin enclave and economic growth escalated with infrastructure improvements.
Former Wilhelm Street. Pelldram's drafted plans for the German concession included a small section under the British concession, present-day Xiaobailou Subdistrict. [2] The US consul in Tianjin at the time, Charles Denby Jr., protested, claiming that the district was under American jurisdiction, granted to the US for its role as mediator during the Convention of Peking in 1860.
Tianjin: 1861 1946 French Railway, Kunming: Kunming: 1904 1940 After the French, WWII saw a significant influx of American troops. Germany: Kiautschou Bay leased territory: Qingdao: 1898 1914 German concession of Hankou: Hankou: 1895 1917 German concession of Tianjin: Tianjin: 1895 1917 Italy: Italian concession of Tianjin: Tianjin: 1901 1947 [36]
Pages in category "Military history of Tianjin" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Battle of Tientsin This page was last ...
The recount by the Austrian consul states that at 10:30 in the morning, he said, the German consul informed him by telephone that China had declared war on Austria-Hungary and Germany and that the Dutch delegate would arrive in Tianjin later that day. At 11:30 a Chinese delegate arrives with a request to cancel the concession and subordinate ...
The war resulted in the 1858 Treaty of Tientsin (Tianjin), in which the Chinese government agreed to pay war reparations for the expenses of the recent conflict, open a second group of ten ports to European commerce, legalize the opium trade, and grant foreign traders and missionaries rights to travel within China. [18]
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin (simplified Chinese: 平津作战; traditional Chinese: 平津作戰; pinyin: Píng Jīn Zùozhàn), also known as the Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second ...