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Xiang Rong | |
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| Born | 1810 Wuxi County, Chongqing, China |
| Died | 9 August 1856 (aged 45–46) Danyang, China |
| Allegiance | Qing dynasty |
| Years of service | 1830–1856 |
| Rank | Field Marshal (1854) |
| Unit | Army group |
| Commands | Chief commander of the Jiangnan Battalion |
| Battles / wars | First rout the Army Group Jiangnan (1853–1856) |
| Awards | created the royal BATURU (Manchu：the Brave) in 1853 created Imperial yellow jacket (黃馬褂) in 1857 buried in the Nanjing Pantheon. |
Xiang Rong (Chinese: 向榮; 1801 – 9 August 1856) was a Chinese military general and politician. He was born in Wuxi County, Chongqing, and was promoted from the rank of a foot soldier during the later years of the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). He was involved in early military operations against the Taiping Rebellion in Henan from 1850 onwards. From then he was a Senior Colonel, after one year the military promoted him be the tidu (提督) of Guangxi, even though he failed, he made the Taiping believers flee Guangxi.
Continuing after Guangxi, Xiang Rong never gave up and tracked the Taiping rebels across three province to Jiangnan in southern China.[1] His Jiangnan Battalion (part of the Green Standard Army) was constantly defeated by the Taiping rebel army outside Nanjing. The Taiping rebel army broke through his various encirclements and occupied Wuhan and Nanjing, giving rise to a huge civil war.
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