Boxers

The Empress Dowager, the cunning monarch who ruled the Manchu court, was reported to have unleashed a mysterious martial arts cult known as the Boxers on the “foreign devils” residing in the Middle Kingdom.

Devil Dog David Talbot 2010

Better known as the Boxers, they met behind closed doors to practice martial arts and to plot the overthrow of the imperial dynasty and the expulsion of “foreign devils.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Better known as the Boxers, they met behind closed doors to practice martial arts and to plot the overthrow of the imperial dynasty and the expulsion of “foreign devils.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

The Boxers was a society which had long existed in China for various religious, patriotic and other purposes.

The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

Big Sword or Big Fist Society, commonly known as Boxers, and asked me to join them.

Chatterbox, 1905. Various

There a certain set of people called the Boxers arose in rebellion and threatened the lives of all foreigners, including

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt Edward Stratemeyer 1896

Early in 1900 members of a Chinese society called the Boxers began to kill

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Chinese, called the Boxers, began to massacre native Christians in the north of China, and to drive out or kill all missionaries and other foreigners.

A School History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

A sect or society known as the Boxers, founded in 1899 originally as a patriotic and ultra-conservative body, rapidly developed into a reactionary and anti-foreign, and especially anti-Christian organisation.

Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

David Schneider, a gay rights advocate, called Boxers a "class joint" that "gives back to the community more than many bars do."

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