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- - - - Able to re-stock food and ammunition
  - - - Cixi's ambivalence
        
        Battle of Senluo temple
        
        Pro-Boxer edict June 16th
      - Provincialism
        
        Mutual defense pact of the southeastern provinces
        
        Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai refused to send troops
    - - Immune to bullets
      - Refusal to use trains
      - Division of forces
      - Allowed the July Truce on 14 July,
        
        which was a big mistake as it enabled the besieged to inspect their damage, make contact with Tianjin and make preparations and revitalise in anticipation for the relief force (food replenished etc.)
  - - - Sepoys easily accessible for reinforcement
        
        12 guns imported from India
      - Battle of Yangtsun 6th august 1900
        
        Evidence of the importance of military experience in the ranks of the British with the Bengal Lancers on the right flank and their military endurace. Qing abandoned positions- several men died of heat stroke.
      - Battle of Peitsang use of a pontoon bridge
  - - - Russian warships damaged
    - - 5000 cavalry men armed with modern rifles
- - - - James Hudson Taylor mission inland
      - Tianjin Massacre 1972 70 killed
      - Feng shui
      - 272 new missionary centres had opened up between 1880-1900
    - - prior to war 50,000 troops on payroll in Shandong, 31,000 in 97, 21,000 by 1898
        
        Meant that there was an increased reliance on militia to aid individuals