sentences:  The Boxer Rebellion, which broke out in China in the year 1900, was a hunt for foreigners- foreign influences in general, and missionaries and Christian converts in specific.About 220 missionaries, including 45 Swedes, and untold thousands of Christian Chinese were slaughtered by the Boxers.With a loaded rifle always at the ready, Larson managed to save himself, his wife and two small daughters, and about 20 Swedish and American missionaries, and got the party to Siberia.