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Third Battle of Nanjing
Part of the Taiping Rebellion
Date14 March – 19 July 1864
Location
Nanjing, Qing China
Result

Qing victory

  • Mass scale summary execution, wartime rape, looting and arson
  • End of the Taiping Rebellion
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Qing Dynasty Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Qing dynasty Zeng Guofan
Qing dynasty Zeng Guoquan
Qing dynasty Zhu Hongzhang
Hong Xiuquan #
Li Xiucheng Executed
Strength
500,000+ Xiang Army 370,000 defenders
Casualties and losses
10,000+ died of illness
9,000+ killed
Zeng Guofan allege 100,000 Taiping soldier casualties
200,000+ surrendered
200,000–300,000 civilians massacred[1]

The Third Battle of Nanjing in 1864 was the last major engagement of the Taiping Rebellion in the Qing Empire. With the fall of Nanjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the rebellion came to an end. The Hunan Army, an unpaid and barely fed militia commissioned by the Qing Empire, lost all their discipline and committed mass-scale random murder, wartime rape, looting and arson against the civilians of Nanjing, seen as "rebels".[2][3] 200,000–300,000 "rebels" were reported dead by Zeng Guofan, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army.

  1. ^ 郭廷以 (1979). 近代中國史綱. CUHK Press. pp. 159–160. 湘军'贪掠夺,颇乱伍。中军各勇留营者皆去搜括',……'沿街死尸十之九皆老者。其幼孩未满二、三岁者亦被戳以为戏,匍匐道上。妇女四十岁以下者一人俱无(均被虏),老者负伤或十余刀,数十刀,哀号之声达于四方。'凡此均为曾国荃幕友赵烈文目睹所记,总计死者约二、三十万人。
  2. ^ Platt, Stephen R. (2012). Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. pp. 350–351.
  3. ^ 郭廷以 (1979). 近代中國史綱. CUHK Press. pp. 159–160. 湘军'贪掠夺,颇乱伍。中军各勇留营者皆去搜括',……'沿街死尸十之九皆老者。其幼孩未满二、三岁者亦被戳以为戏,匍匐道上。妇女四十岁以下者一人俱无(均被虏),老者负伤或十余刀,数十刀,哀号之声达于四方。'凡此均为曾国荃幕友赵烈文目睹所记,总计死者约二、三十万人。

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