Battle of Nanjing (1853)

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Battle of Nanjing (1853)
Part of the Taiping Rebellion
Date March 1853 Location Nanjing and surrounding areas Result Taiping troops victory, Fall of Nanjing, changed name of Tianjing (天京)
Belligerents
Qing Dynasty Green Standard Army Eight Banners	Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
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.