Battle of Nanjing (1853)

Battle of Nanjing (1853)
Part of the Taiping Rebellion
DateMarch 1853
Location
Nanjing and surrounding areas
Result Taiping troops victory, Fall of Nanjing, changed name of Tianjing (天京)
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Qing Dynasty
Green Standard Army
Eight Banners
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Qing dynasty Lu Jianying 
Imperial Commissioner Xiang Rong
Qin Rigang
Yang Xiuqing
Wei Changhui
Strength
40,000–60,000 men (included Eight Banners 20,000) 550,000 men
Casualties and losses
~30,000 10,000
~30,000 families of manchu bannermen killed[1] + 40,000 other manchu merchants or tourists

The Battle of Nanjing (1853) (Chinese: 太平軍攻佔南京; pinyin: Taiping jun gongzhan Nánjīng) began after the fall of Wuhan on March 8, 1853, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanjing on March 19, 1853, to Taiping troops, a few days after the Qing Government evacuated the city.[2][3]

The remaining Qing garrison surrendered to the Taiping, but they were nonetheless executed.

  1. ^ [books.google.com.sg/books?id=Tnp0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT426]
  2. ^ Spence, Jonathan D. (1996). God's Chinese Son (Reprint ed.). W. W. Norton & Company.
  3. ^ The Taiping Rebellion By Shunshin Chin