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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire, Thomas H. Reilly, page 2, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-80192-6 a derivative of File:China 1820 de.svg Author
His forces drove the Taipings from their entrenched positions, despite greater rebel numbers. A week later, after a return march, Ward's forces struck at the city of Guangfulin, occupied by over 20,000 Taiping troops, just five miles from Ward's own headquarters. Ward, at the head of five hundred men, attacked the city without artillery support.
The Battle of Muddy Flat, also called the Battle of Nicheng (泥城之戰) by the Chinese, was a small land/naval battle on the borders of the Shanghai Concession areas of what would later become the Shanghai International Settlement between a British, American, and Small Swords Society alliance and units of the Qing Imperial forces with a fleet of mercenary pirate allies on April 3–4, 1854. [1]
Taiping (256–258), era name used by Sun Liang, emperor of Eastern Wu; Taiping (409–430), era name used by Feng Ba, emperor of Northern Yan; Taiping (485–491), era name used by Yujiulü Doulun, khan of Rouranro; Taiping (556–557), era name used by Emperor Jing of Liang; Taiping (617–622), era name used by Lin Shihong
In December 1861, the Taiping, having already controlled the hinterlands of Zhejiang for many months, began marching on Ningbo under the command of Huang Chengzhong and Fan Youzeng. [1] When the Taiping neared the city, they were approached by British, French, and American diplomats who attempted to dissuade them from taking the city. [ 2 ]
The Taiping forces reached Nanjing on March 6, with a strength that had grown to almost 750,000. The Taiping besieged the city for thirteen days, until three tunnels had been dug beneath city walls in order to plant explosives. Two of them exploded on time but the third one detonated late, killing many Taiping troops in friendly fire.
In the 1860s, an attempt was made to establish a modern navy via the British-built Osborn or "Vampire" Fleet to combat the Taiping rebels' US-built gunboats. The so-called "Vampire Fleet", fitted out by the Chinese government for the suppression of piracy on the coast of China, was scrapped owing to the non-fulfilment of the condition that British commander Sherard Osborn should receive orders ...
The film, set in China in the 1860s during the Taiping Rebellion, revolves around the sworn brotherhood of three men. The film was released on 13 December 2007 simultaneously in most of Asia, except Japan. [4] It won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and a Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film