Diana Preston's popular narrative history of the Boxer Rebellion's climactic summer of 1900, covering the siege of the Beijing legations and the international relief campaign, drawing on published memoirs, diplomatic records and secondary scholarship.
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Reliability TierA widely read popular history rather than a specialist academic monograph, useful for its narrative detail and its discussion of casualty estimates, but secondary to the academic literature for interpretive questions. Connections
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This source names Beijing directly: "of 1900, covering the siege of the Beijing legations and the international relief campaign, drawing on published memoirs, diplomatic records and secondary scholarship."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
Diana, Deities This source names Diana directly: "Diana Preston's popular narrative history of the Boxer Rebellion's climactic summer of 1900, covering the siege of the Beijing legations and the international relief campaign, drawing on published..."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition
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This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 2 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Wars & Conflicts, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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