The Eight-power Allied Forces Through Foreigners' Camera

China Before the Invasion of the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The Entering of
Envoys and Legation Guards into Beijing

First Setbacks of
the Allied Forces
and the Capture of Tianjin

The Capture of
Beijing by the
Eight-Power Allied Forces

The War Before Negotiations and the Signing of the
Protocol of 1901

China Under the Protocol of 1901

Under the pretext of searching for Boxers, the Allied Forces broke into the Yonghe Lamasery, which specialized in the practice of Tibetan Buddhism. After the Allied Forces left, the lamas at the temple found that much of their gold and silver musical instruments used for performing religious rites and Buddhist statues were gone.