Pioneering exercise in Tientsin, 1909

German pioneers during an exercise with bridge building materials in tow of a steamer in Tientsin (now Tianjin). After the Boxer Rebellion, the occupying forces of the colonial troops had the task of protecting the embassies in Beijing and to secure the connection between the capital and the city of Tientsin on the coast for a possible flaring up of the uprisings

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Embassies Flaring Occupying Pioneering Pioneers Possible Protecting Secure Task Tianjin Tientsin Uprisings

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