Qing Dynasty troops set up a Krupp 57mm gun to fire on the Western (and Japanese) legations.
The gun.
An allied counter barrage killed the gun crew and halted a Chinese assault.
Krupp was the largest, and arguably the most diverse, arms manufacture in Europe, with a heritage dating back to the Great Plague. It survives today as the company ThyssenKrupp AG.
It was a huge arms exporter in the late 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century, and a major supplier of German arms in World War One and World War Two. It's arms, like those of some post WWII arms manufacturers, sometimes supplied both sides in a conflict. It's foresight was such that after World War Two, when the Deutsche Marine first sought a design for a diesel submarine, it had a design ready to go.
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