Talk:Eight-Nation Alliance

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Contents 1 Sign your posts!!!! 2 Wrong dating? 3 Comparison with G8 4 Article Needs to be Rewritten 5 British and Americans didn't loot? 6 Siege of Peking

[edit] Sign your posts!!!!

You guys need to sign your posts. TheAsianGURU (talk) 17:05, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong dating?

Quote -

In fact, the Eight-Nation Alliance is most remembered today in China for the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, once considered the crown jewel of the empire. Priceless artifacts were destroyed in the Palace fire, set by the Alliance soldiers, including a large number of books and scrolls dating as far back as the Tang Dynasty.

This rather disagrees both with my understanding of the situation and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace

which dates its destruction to a war 40 years earlier. [Joel] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.48.205.42 (talk) 21:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

The Summer Palace was destroyed during one of the Opium Wars! This article is disgracefully inaccurate in almost every way. A Complete Re-Write is neccesary.

Crimson Phantom - April 2, 2008 17:59

[edit] Comparison with G8

Compare the constituents with G8. – Kaihsu 18:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Eight-Nation Alliance: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Group of Eight (G8): Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States

--207.112.4.206 (talk) 19:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

So Canada is the new Austria-Hungary? Cool.

Crimson Phantom - April 2, 2008 17:56 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.234.23.2 (talk) 01:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article Needs to be Rewritten

This article needs to be rewritten. Some of it is almost incoherent. Stevenmitchell 16:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British and Americans didn't loot?

I don't see any sources for this information, could anyone provide any? I've heard of Chinese artifacts in British museums, if they didn't loot, how did the artifacts get there?

==Ridiculously speculative logic, unless you can provide a list of chinese artifacts in British museums that you can prove were looted during this specific incident by the army units in question.

You're right the initial claim is a bit dubious, though I can't see why the Russo-war research society would have any particular axe to grind . I suspect it means the British and American forces weren't given leave to engage in looting by their officers, rather than none occuring at all.

[edit] Siege of Peking

Why do you suppress information about the taking of Peking by foreign forces? China will not collapse just because this detail is present in Wikipedia. Take it easy. --Ghirla^-трёп- 00:41, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

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