Battles on Amur River (1900)
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The Battles on the Amur River were border clashes between Chinese Imperial Army troops along with Boxers against Russian forces. They were part of the Boxer Rebellion
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The Chinese treated Russian civilians leniently and allowed them to escape to Russia, even notifying them since a state of war existed, that they should leave the war zone, by contrast, Russian Cossacks killed civilians who tried to flee in the Chinese villages, westerners noted that the Chinese followed "civilized warfare" while the Russians massacred people. The Chinese summoned all available men to fight, and the Chinese forces and garrisons gathered artillery and bombarded Russian troops and towns across the Amur. Despite the Cossacks repulsing Chinese army crossings into Russia, the Chinese army troops increased the amount of artillery and kept up the bombardment. In revenge for the attacks on Chinese villages, Boxer troops burned Russian towns and almost annihilated a Russian force at Tieling
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Russian governor K.N.Gribsky ordered cossacs to destroy all chinese posts on Amyr river, and cossacs completed the order during July. At July, 20, russian forces (including 16 infantry companies, a hundred of cossacs and 16 cannons) crossed Amur near Blagoveshchensk with support from the steamers "Selenga" and "Sungari". At July, 20, russian troops captured Saghalien
, at July, 22 - Aigun
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After the victory over the chinese forces general-governor of Amur Region Nikolai Grodekov decided to annex the right bank of Amur River, and sent a telegram to the Sankt-Peterburg, but russian Ministrer of War Aleksey Kuropatkin
forbidded such an action:
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...
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Battles
The Russians aimed for control over Amur River for navigation.The Chinese treated Russian civilians leniently and allowed them to escape to Russia, even notifying them since a state of war existed, that they should leave the war zone, by contrast, Russian Cossacks killed civilians who tried to flee in the Chinese villages, westerners noted that the Chinese followed "civilized warfare" while the Russians massacred people. The Chinese summoned all available men to fight, and the Chinese forces and garrisons gathered artillery and bombarded Russian troops and towns across the Amur. Despite the Cossacks repulsing Chinese army crossings into Russia, the Chinese army troops increased the amount of artillery and kept up the bombardment. In revenge for the attacks on Chinese villages, Boxer troops burned Russian towns and almost annihilated a Russian force at Tieling
Tieling
Tieling is a prefecture-level city in Liaoning province of the People's Republic of China.The population is 3 million at the 2nd of 2004. Tieling is a city where coal mining is an important industry.The mayor of Tieling is Li Wenke...
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Russian governor K.N.Gribsky ordered cossacs to destroy all chinese posts on Amyr river, and cossacs completed the order during July. At July, 20, russian forces (including 16 infantry companies, a hundred of cossacs and 16 cannons) crossed Amur near Blagoveshchensk with support from the steamers "Selenga" and "Sungari". At July, 20, russian troops captured Saghalien
Heihe
Heihe is a city in Heilongjiang, China.It is located at , on the Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur River, across the river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk...
, at July, 22 - Aigun
Aigun
Aigun was a historic town of China in northern Manchuria, situated on the right bank of the Amur River, some 30 km south from the central urban area of Heihe .The Chinese name of the town, which literally means "Bright Jade", is a transliteration of the original Manchu Aigun was a historic...
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After the victory over the chinese forces general-governor of Amur Region Nikolai Grodekov decided to annex the right bank of Amur River, and sent a telegram to the Sankt-Peterburg, but russian Ministrer of War Aleksey Kuropatkin
Aleksey Kuropatkin
Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin was the Russian Imperial Minister of War who is often held responsible for major Russian drawbacks in the Russian-Japanese War, notably the Battle of Mukden and the Battle of Liaoyang.-Early years:Kuropatkin was born in 1848 in what is now Pskov, in the Russian...
forbidded such an action:
Because of restoring the good relation with China in the nearest future, His Majesty decided not to annex any part of China