With the Allies to Pekin

With the Allies to Pekin is a young adult historical fiction concerning events during the Boxer Rebellion against the British in China in the late 19th century. G. A. Henty was as prolific as he was a notorious colonialist, and his stories reflect his beliefs to encourage his youthful audience to not sit idle and apathetic while there was civilizing to be done. The protagonist of the Allies to Pekin, Rex Bateman, learns precisely this.