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Ming artillerymen. How many gunners did Yongle send to ÄáșĄi Viá»t? There are no detailed records, but we can make an estimate, based on the fact that a decree of Hongwu stipulated that ten percent of Ming infantry units be gun units. Given that the Ming invasion force numbered 215,000, most of which were infantry, we can guess that there…
The Xiang Army recapturing Jinling, a suburb of the Taiping capital, July 19, 1864. The Taiping Rebellion devastated the landscape of southern China, causing widespread bloodshed and famine. Detail from The suppression of the Taiping Rebellion. Imperial troops during the Taiping Rebellion, China the wounded musketman is a Taiping rebel.…
The Xiang Army recapturing Jinling, a suburb of the Taiping capital, July 19, 1864 Taiping soldiers, male and female, outside Shanghai The Taiping âRebellionâ (1851â64), or âRevolution,â was a religious-based domestic uprising with ethnicâHan versus Manchuâovertones. Fought mainly with traditional Chinese weapons and tactics, it corresponded and overlapped with the…
In 751 a Tang (Tâang) dynasty army commanded by Gao Xianzhi (Kao Hsien-chih), military governor of Anxi (An-hsi) in the Western Regions, met an Arab army in battle at Talas River near Samarkand. The Chinese were defeated. Although this was not a major military confrontation, it had great consequences. Tang…
There was a persistent military, cultural, and political conflict between various nomadic and semi-nomadic groups living in the steppe, and the sedentary, agricultural Chinese for most of imperial Chinese history. Steppe people were dependent upon their horses, which they used to drive their herds from pasture to pasture as the…
The Opium War between Great Britain and Qing dynasty China began because the Chinese prohibited the sale of opium by foreign, mostly British, merchants. European demand for Chinese goodsâsilk, porcelain, and teaâwhich had begun in the seventeenth century increased dramatically in the eighteenth century. The British came to dominate this…
The Suppression of Piracy in the East Indies and the South China Sea, 1855â69 As trade between Europe and the Far East developed, so did piracy, on a scale that dwarfed the activities of the Caribbean buccaneers of the previous century. It has been suggested that the pirates of the…
The Gongchen tank displayed at the Beijing Military Museum. The Gongchen is the Chinese designation…
Han Dynasty: circa 202 BC â 220 AD Chinese naval developments occurred far earlier than…
It was not entirely unexpected that the Chinese would attack. The Indians had observed a…
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