Third Battle of Nanking

Wann

14. März 1864 – 19. Juli 1864

Art

Schlacht

Koordinaten

32.05° N, 118.77° E

Description

1864 decisive battle of the Taiping Rebellion

Part of the Taiping Rebellion (1864)

The Third Battle of Nanjing in 1864 was the last major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion in the Qing Empire. With the fall of Nanjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the rebellion came to an end. The Hunan Army, an unpaid and barely fed militia commissioned by the Qing Empire, lost all their discipline and committed mass-scale random murder, wartime rape, looting and arson against the civilians of Nan…

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