- £275.00
China. (Boxer Rebellion). 1900. Stamp-less Picture post card of 'The Pyramids and Buffalo, Suez Canal' written from Suez dated '30th Aout 1900' addressed to France cancelled 'Corps Exp. Du Tonkin/ Port Said' double ring '3rd Sept 00' with circular 'Reg Des Equipages Mres du Corps Expd. De Chine/ Le Chef d' Escadron Commandant' with French arrival. Very nice item written from the French Detachment on route to the Boxer Campaign.
The Boxer Uprising was a violet and fanatical statement of anti-foreign and Christian feelings against the Colonial expansion in China and the East. This resulted in an international force of 55,000 troops from the eight nation alliance to repress it. French Troops were drawn from France and Indo-China but also from other French Colonies including a Balloon section. By 1902n there were seven military Post Offices in China.
