Jealous French Missionaries’ efforts in Indochina ignited a series of savage conflicts.   More »

For over a century and a half, combat photographers have taken extraordinary risks to document the true horrors of war.   More »

To meet the threat of the decade-long Taiping rebellion, American soldier of fortune Frederick Townsend Ward assembled an army of “foreign devils”.   More »

This unlikely alliance saved the besieged foreign legations at Peking in 1900 during the brutal Boxer Rebellion.   More »

The Qing Dynasty become embroiled in the Second Opium War of 1860 when Britain forced open trade relations with a reluctant China.   More »