WI the foreign diplomats, soldiers and civilians sheltering in the legation quarter of Peking during the siege by overwhelming nos. of Boxers, had actually been overrun and massacred during those 2 mths in early 1900, before the international relief force OTL fought its way thru to rescue the trapped Westerners ? Would this massacre of Westerners, including women and children, by these 'Asiatic hordes' have provoked outrage among the European and American relief contingents to the same extent that the Indian Mutiny massacres had in 1857, and resulted in similar largescale retaliatory indiscriminate massacres and summary executions committed against Chinese civilians by outraged Western soldiers and marines ? How much more negatively would Western-Chinese political, economic, and racial relations have been affected in subsequent yrs had the Boxers overrun the foreign legation and massacred the inhabitants ?