Battle of Baideng

Battle of Baideng
Part of Xiongnu campaigns in China
Date200 BC
Location
Mount Baideng at Pincheng (present-day Datong, Shanxi)
Result Xiongnu victory
Belligerents
Xiongnu Han dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Modu Chanyu Emperor Gaozu
Strength
400,000[1] 320,000[1]
Casualties and losses
Heavy[2] Less than Xiongnu[2]

The Battle of Baideng (白登之戰) was a military conflict between Han China and the Xiongnu in 200 BC.

In an alternate account, Grousset[3] says that the Xiongnu invaded Chinese Shanxi and besieged Taiyuan. Gaozu broke the siege and chased the Xiongnu north, but was blockaded by them on the Baideng plateau near Datong in far northern Shanxi.

  1. ^ a b Chang, Chun-shu (2007). The Rise of the Chinese Empire, Volume 1: Nation, State, and Imperialism in Early China, ca. 1600 B.C. - A.D. 8. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-472-11533-4.
  2. ^ a b "The rise of the Chinese Empire / Chun-shu Chang v.1".
  3. ^ Rene Grousset, 'The Empire of the Steppes',1970/2008,page27,