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Xiang Army, the Glossary

Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang Army The Xiang Army or Hunan Army was a standing army organized by Zeng Guofan from existing regional and village militia forces called tuanlian to contain the Taiping Rebellion in Qing China (1850 to 1864).^[1]

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1853 establishments in China
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19th-century military history of China
Culture in Hunan
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Military history of the Qing dynasty
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Anqing

Anqing (also Nganking, formerly Hwaining, now the name of Huaining County) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Anhui province, People's Republic of China.

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Bao Chao

Bao Chao (Styled Chun Ting 春霆) (1828–1886) was an eminent Han Chinese official, military Captain General, of the late Qing Dynasty in China.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Board of War

The Board of War, also known as the Board of War and Ordnance, was created by the Second Continental Congress as a special standing committee to oversee the American Continental Army's administration and to make recommendations regarding the army to Congress.

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Changsha

Changsha is the capital and the largest city of Hunan Province of China.

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Charles George Gordon

Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator.

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Chu Army

The Chu Army was a standing regional army organized by Zuo Zongtang. Xiang Army and Chu Army are 19th-century military history of China, military history of Hunan and military history of the Qing dynasty.

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Commander-in-chief

A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.

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Draft History of Qing

The Draft History of Qing is a draft of the official history of the Qing dynasty compiled and written by a team of over 100 historians led by Zhao Erxun who were hired by the Beiyang government of the Republic of China.

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Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)

The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (Xiao'erjing: تُ‌جِ خُوِ لُوًا, Тунҗы Хуэй Луан) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War, was a war fought in 19th-century western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875) of the Qing dynasty.

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The Eight Banners (in Manchu: jakūn gūsa,, ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed. Xiang Army and Eight Banners are military history of the Qing dynasty.

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Ever Victorious Army

"Ever Victorious Army" was a small imperial army that fought rebels in late-19th-century China. Xiang Army and Ever Victorious Army are military history of the Qing dynasty and Taiping Rebellion.

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Field marshal

Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the second most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks, but junior to the rank of Generalissimo.

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Gang

A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.

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Green Standard Army

The Green Standard Army (Manchu: niowanggiyan turun i kūwaran) was the name of a category of military units under the control of Qing dynasty in China. Xiang Army and Green Standard Army are military history of the Qing dynasty.

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Guangxi

Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.

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Hankou

Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow, was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China.

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Hanyang, Wuhan

Hanyang District forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China.

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Hu Linyi

Hu Linyi (July 14, 1812 - Sept 30, 1861) was a scholar and official during the late Qing Dynasty in China.

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Huai Army

The Huai Army, named for the Huai River, was a military force allied with the Qing dynasty raised to contain the Taiping Rebellion in 1862. Xiang Army and Huai Army are military history of the Qing dynasty and Taiping Rebellion.

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Hunan

Hunan is an inland province of China.

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Li Hongzhang

Li Hongzhang, Marquess Suyi (t; also Li Hung-chang; 15 February 1823 – 7 November 1901) was a Chinese statesman, general and diplomat of the late Qing dynasty.

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Li Xubin

Li Xubin (1817 – November 16, 1858), courtesy name Di'an (迪庵) or Kehui (克惠), was a Chinese military general who lived in the Qing dynasty.

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Liu Kunyi

Liu Kunyi (January21, 1830October6, 1902) was a Chinese official who came to prominence during the government suppression of the Taiping Rebellion and was active in the following Self-Strengthening Movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, the late Qing dynasty.

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Manchu people

The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Nian Rebellion

The Nian Rebellion was an insurrection against the Qing dynasty in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) in southern China.

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Qimen County

Qimen County (alternately romanized as Keemun) is a county in the southeast of Anhui Province, China, bordering Jiangxi Province to the southwest.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Regular army

A regular army is the official army of a state or country (the official armed forces), contrasting with irregular forces, such as volunteer irregular militias, private armies, mercenaries, etc.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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Tael

Tael, at the OED Online.

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Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, officially the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1851–1864), was a theocratic monarchy which sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty. Xiang Army and Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are 1864 disestablishments in China and Taiping Rebellion.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Xiang Army and Taiping Rebellion are 19th-century military history of China.

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Third Battle of Nanjing

The Third Battle of Nanjing in 1864 was the last major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion in the Qing Empire.

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Viceroy of Liangjiang

The Viceroy of Liangjiang, fully named in Chinese as the Governor-General of the Two River Provinces and Other Local Admirals, in Charge of Military Affairs, Food and Wages, Management of Rivers, and Administration on Nanhe Affairs, was one of eight regional Viceroys during the Qing dynasty.

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Viceroys in China

Zongdu (Tsung-tu;; Manchu:; usually translated as Governor-General or Viceroy) were the managers supervising provincial governors in Ming and Qing China.

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Wall gun

The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Xiang Army and wall gun are Taiping Rebellion.

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Warlord

A warlord is an individual who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region, often within a country without a strong national government, through usually informal or illegal coercive control over the local armed forces.

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Warlord Era

The Warlord Era was a period in the history of the Republic of China when control of the country was divided among former military cliques of the Beiyang Army and other regional factions from 1916 to 1928.

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Wuchang, Wuhan

Wuchang is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southeastern) bank of the Yangtze River, opposite the mouth of the Han River. The two other cities, Hanyang and Hankou, were on the left (northwestern) bank, separated from each other by the Han River.

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Yang Xiuqing

Yang Xiuqing (died September 2/3, 1856), was an organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion.

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Yangtze Delta

The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui.

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Yong Ying

Yong Ying were a type of regional army that emerged in the 19th century in the Qing dynasty army, which fought in most of China's wars after the Opium War and numerous rebellions exposed the ineffectiveness of the Manchu Eight Banners and Green Standard Army. Xiang Army and Yong Ying are military history of the Qing dynasty.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiang_Army

Also known as Hsiang Army, Hunan Army, Old Hunan Army.

Xiang Army, the Glossary

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See also

1853 establishments in China

1864 disestablishments in China

19th-century military history of China

Culture in Hunan

Military history of Hunan

Military history of the Qing dynasty

Taiping Rebellion

References