When the Boxer rising sweeps northern China and the Empress joins it, the foreign legations in Peking are besieged and Admiral Seymour’s first relief column is driven back. Young Rex, son of a merchant, goes through the siege and the multinational campaign that followed, with cousins to rescue and Sir Claude MacDonald’s legation at the centre.
One of Henty’s last adventures, built on events only a few years old; its view of China is that of an imperial Englishman of 1900. Download the free EPUB.