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Taiping Revolution

Taiping Rebellion
Regaining the Provincial City Anqing2.jpg
Image of the Battle of Anqing (1861)
Date December 1850 – August 1864
Location China
Result

Qing victory

Belligerents
Flag of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.svg Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Strength
1,100,000+ 500,000
Casualties and losses
145,000 killed 243,000 killed
Total dead: 20–30 million dead (best estimate).
Highest estimate: 100,000,000

Qing victory

Later stages:
 France
 United Kingdom

The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Civil War (simplified Chinese: 太平天国运动; traditional Chinese: 太平天國運動; pinyin: Taìpíng Tīanguó Yùndòng, literally "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement") was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864 fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. The Taiping Rebellion began in the southern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of persecution against a millenarian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. The goals of the Taipings were religious, nationalist, and political in nature; they sought the conversion of the Chinese people to the Taiping's version of Christianity, the overthrow of the ruling Manchus, and a wholesale transformation and reformation of the state. The war was mostly fought in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei, but over 14 years of war the Taiping Army had marched through every province of China proper except Gansu. The war was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644, and ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war and the largest conflict of the 19th century, with estimates of war dead ranging from 20-70 million to as much as 100 million, with millions more displaced.


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