 A wall had been constructed around the Legation Quarter and outside the wall a grassy area, a glacis, gave the soldiers a field of visibility to warn them of advancing trouble—and also isolating them from the Chinese.In the years after the Boxer Rebellion, foreign influence increased in Beijing, a conservative bastion of China.Missionaries, tourists, artists, soldiers, and businessmen came in larger numbers to visit or reside in the Legation Quarter.