This led to them being called " Boxers " by Westerners, as that is how they perceived martial arts at the time.

While never proven, it is " highly probable " that triad organizations either took after or were originally part of the revolutionary movement called the White Lotus Society, and quite possibly, The Boxers.

Chung's most famous illusion, partly because of his death while performing it, was called " Condemned to Death by the Boxers ".

The anti-foreign agitators were called Boxers, and soon were threatening the foreign legations in Peking ( Beijing ) and the European settlement at Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

* The White Lotus cult in the film is based on a xenophobic underground society called the " Righteous Harmonious Fists " ( also known as the " Boxers " of the Boxer Rebellion ).

The Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known by foreigners as the Boxers, or " Yihe Magic Boxing ", was a secret society founded in the northern coastal province of Shandong consisting largely of people who had lost their livelihoods due to imperialism and natural disasters.

This incident marked the first time the Boxers used the slogan " Support the Qing, destroy the foreigners " ( 扶清灭洋 ) that would later characterize them.

The Chinese government was split into two factions: the conservative traditionalists who wished to use the Boxers to remove foreigners from China and the moderates, most likely those who benefitted from the Western influences.

Prince Duan led the Boxers to loot his enemies within the Imperial court and the foreigners, although Imperial authorities expelled Boxer troops after they were let into the city and went on a looting rampage against both the foreign and the Chinese Imperial forces.

Yuan Shikai used his own forces to suppress and kill large numbers of Boxers in Shandong, and Zhang entered into negotiations with the foreigners to keep his army out of the conflict.

Ronglu and Prince Qing sent food to the legations, and used their Manchu Bannermen to attack the Muslim Kansu Braves of Dong Fuxiang and the Boxers who were besieging the foreigners.

Ronglu also ordered Nie to protect foreigners and save the railway from the Boxers.

General Nie committed thousands of troops against the Boxers instead of against the foreigners.

Angry at the Chinese Christians for collaborating with foreigners who were murdering Chinese, the Muslims and Boxers roasted some of them alive and attacked and ransacked their property.

At that moment, Lord Nelson Rathbone ( Aidan Gillen ), leads a band of Boxers into the city, who attack the Keeper.

387 were built, of which 88 were right-hand drive ( of which 58 for the UK market ), making it the rarest of all Berlinetta Boxers.

This later changed to the tradition of Bowlesmen in Boxers ( 1994 ), which did the same thing, except with boxer shorts being worn.

* " Boxers " ( song ), by Morrissey from his 1995 album World of Morrissey

Government forces were beginning to side with the Righteous Harmony Society ( the Boxers ), so any attempt to go up the river might well draw hostile fire.

On 11 June, Beatty and 150 men from Barfleur landed as part of a force of 2, 400 defending Tientsin from 15, 000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

Other characters included Boxers, Chinese Plate Spinners, topical figures, a trick puppet with an extending neck ( the " Courtier ") and a monkey.

** Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill sixty Chinese Christians.

Yuan took the side of the pro foreign faction in the Imperial Court, along with Prince Qing, Li Hongzhang and Ronglu, he refused to side with the Boxers and attack the Eight Nation Alliance forces, joining with other Chinese governors who commanded substantial modernized armies like Zhang Zhidong not participating in the Boxer Rebellion.

Diplomats, foreign civilians and soldiers, and Chinese Christians in the Legation Quarter were under siege by the Imperial Army of China and the Boxers for 55 days.

The Boxers consisted of local farmers / peasants and other workers who were made desperate by disastrous floods and widespread opium addiction and laid the blame on Christian missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Europeans colonizing their country.

Pro western Chinese Governors like Yuan Shikai used their modernized armies to systematically suppress and kill Boxers in Shandong.

Boxers burned Christian churches, killed Chinese Christians, and intimidated Chinese officials who stood in their way.

The soldiers at the British Embassy and German Legations shot and killed several Boxers, alienating the Chinese population of the city and nudging the Qing government toward support of the Boxers.

The Muslim Kansu braves and Boxers, along with other Chinese then attacked and killed Chinese Christians around the legations in revenge for foreign attacks on Chinese.

The number of Chinese soldiers and Boxers besieging the Legation Quarter and the Beitang is unknown, but certainly there were many thousands.

On 22 and 23 June Chinese soldiers and Boxers set fire to areas north and west of the British Legation, using it as a " frightening tactic " to attack the defenders.

Protestant and Catholic missionaries and their Chinese converts were massacred throughout northern China, some by Boxers and others by government troops and authorities.

Anger against Chinese Christians set off again, and the Boxers burned down several churches, roasting some victims alive.

Russian forces quickly dispatched both Boxers and Chinese Imperial troops.

The Chinese Honghuzi bandits of Manchuria, who had fought alongside the Boxers in the war, did not stop when the Boxer rebellion was over, and continued guerilla warfare against the Russian occupation up to the Russo-Japanese war when the Russians were defeated by Japan.

To provide restitution to missionaries and Chinese Christian families whose property had been destroyed, Ament guided American troops through villages to punish Boxers and confiscate their property.

In October 1898, a group of Boxers attacked the Christian community of Liyuantun village, where a temple to the Jade Emperor had been converted into a Catholic church.

In response, thousands of Boxers burst into the walled city of Beijing that afternoon and burned many of the Christian churches and cathedrals in the city.

In April 1900, was ordered to sail to Japan and then to Taku, China as part of the multinational China Relief Expedition being mobilized to rescue the foreign legations in Peking that were then besieged by the Boxers, a movement that opposed the growing influence of European business interests and Christian missionaries in China.

Missionaries and their Chinese converts were massacred throughout northern China by Boxers, government troops and authorities.

Boxers and other combat athletes routinely use hand wraps and boxing gloves to help stabilize the hand, greatly reducing pain and risk of injury during impact training such as working the heavy bag.