LUELLA MINER

(Sarah Luella Miner)


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Luella Miner

This forenoon ten Americans and twenty Russians went to the south cathedral, where the Boxers were looting, burning, and killing, killed seventy Boxers, captured ten, and took Catholic refugees to a place near the British Legation. In the afternoon twenty-five Germans and an equal number of French went to the same place, with much the same result, though not quite so many Boxers were killed
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The Boxers were against Western and Christian influence. The Government was too weak to protect the foreigners or the Chinese Christians. So the Western Powers used their soldiers and diplomats to defend the Western Enclaves and Christian Churches not unlike the situation with the Taliban in Afghanistan a century later.

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Luella Miner
  • Born: October 30, 1861
  • Died: December 2, 1935
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Christian Missionary In China
Biography

Sarah Luella Miner was an American educator and Christian missionary in China. She founded and led the North China Union College for Women, China's first women's college.