All hell has broken loose and the United States Marines are in the center of it! At the Battle of Tientsin, from June 17-23, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, a bond was formed between the United States Marines and the Royal Welch Fusiliers that exists to this day and is remembered every Saint David's Day, on March 1st, when messages are exchanged between these two units that contain only the words "And Saint David".
In this battle, the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the United States Marines were forced to retreat into the building on the marines' left flank. They were able to hold out against repeated Chinese Boxer assaults and inflict heavy casualties, due to their superior firepower, until the Chinese Boxers decided to withdraw from the village and rejoin the rest of their army, which was awaiting the arrival of a column of British and Indian infantry that was moving towards the village.
The column of British and Indian infantry, molded in cream, that was marching towards the village.
Indian infantry, serving as the 1st Sikh Infantry, in column!
Here, Armies in Plastic American Civil War Union Iron Brigade infantry are being used as German East Asia Brigade infantry. They are marching to the relief of the village, behind the British and Indian infantry.
For these two battles, between the Imperial Chinese Army and the Chinese Boxers, before they joined forces, blue and dark green Armies in Plastic Chinese Boxers are being used, though the Imperial Chinese Army also had troops in modern military uniforms. In the first battle, the blue Imperial Chinese infantry was able to inflict heavy casualties on the dark green Chinese Boxers, in a fierce melee that cleared the way for an assault on a village.
However, the battle for the village was lost by the Imperial Chinese infantry, after another melee, with heavy casualties on both sides, and after the Chinese Boxers had stormed one of the houses, where the Imperial Chinese infantry had retreated.