The Chinese Invasion of the Philippines

In 18 98, a popular uprising among people who practise and and believe in a kind of folk magic version of martial arts. And they are attacking, primarily chinese christians, but also a christian missionaries,. Who have been gobbling up china for decades at that point. The foreigners see the these martial artists, and not recognizing, you know, what what kung fo is. They call them boxers because that's what it looks like they're doing. So this becomes known as the boxer rebellion. In 19 hundred there was an eight nation alliance that includes great britain, russia, france, italy, austro, hungary, et cetera