The rise of the Boxers, was a movement, started in November 1899 and ended on September 7, 1901, emerged in China against the foreign influence on trade, politics, religion and technology of the last years of the nineteenth century . In August 1900, about 230 foreigners, thousands of Chinese Christians, an unknown number (between 50,000 and 100,000) of rebels, their sympathizers and other Chinese had been killed in the revolt and its repression.
The military stalemate had several consequences. It made the Confederates lose morale due to the fact that they were exhausting their efforts by always being prepared to fight but not actually doing so.
In 1885 Alexander graham bell helped set up a company to build "long-distance telephone lines," since it was clear that the telephone was going to be the communication tool of the future.
