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Ten Great Campaigns

First Campaign against the Dzungars
Receiving the surrender of the Yili.jpg
Surrender of Dawachi Khan in 1755
Date 1755
Location Xinjiang
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Dzungar Khanate
Commanders and leaders
Qianlong Emperor
Bandi (Overall Command)
Zhaohui (Assistant Commander)
Emin Khoja
Amursana
Burhān al-Dīn
Khwāja-i Jahān
Dawachi  (POW)
Strength
9,000 Manchu Eight Bannermen
19,500 Inner Mongols
6,500 Outer Mongols
2,000 Zunghars
5,000 Uyghurs from Hami and Turfan
12,000 Chinese
7,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown
Second Campaign against the Dzungars
Battle of Oroi-Jalatu.jpg
The Battle of Oroi-Jalatu in 1758, Zhao Hui ambushes Amursana at night.
Date 1756-1758
Location Xinjiang
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Dzungars loyal to Amursana
Commanders and leaders
Qianlong Emperor
Bandi  (1757) (Overall Command until death in battle)
Cäbdan-jab (Overall Command)
Zhaohui (Assistant Commander)
Ayushi
Emin Khoja
Burhān al-Dīn
Khwāja-i Jahān
Amursana
Chingünjav  
Strength
10,000 Bannermen
5,000 Uyghurs from Turfan and Hami
Plus Zunghars
20,000 Dzungars
Casualties and losses
Unknown everyone defeated except for 50 men of Chingünjav who fled
Campaign in Altishahr (Pacification of Xinjiang)
The Great Victory at Qurman.jpg
The Battle of Qurman 1759, Fude and Machang bring 600 troops to relieve Zhaohui in the Black River.
Date 1758-1759
Location Xinjiang
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing dynasty Altishahri followers of the Khoja brothers
Kyrgyzs
Dzungar rebels
Commanders and leaders
Qianlong Emperor
Zhaohui (Overall Command)
Fude (Assistant Commander)
Agui
Doubin
Rongbao
Zhanyinbao
Fulu
Shuhede
Mingrui
Arigun
Machang
Namjil  
Yan Xiangshi
Yisamu
Duanjibu
Khoja Emin
Khoja Si Bek
Sultan Shah of Badakhshan
Khwāja-i Jahān POW
Burhān al-Dīn POW
Strength
10,000 Bannermen
Uyghurs from Hami, Turfan and Badakshan
Plus Zunghars
30,000 Altishahr (Tarim Basin) Uyghurs
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown
First Campaign against Jinchuan
Reconquer the little Goldstreamland.jpg
Depiction of Qing troops on a campaign in Jinchuan ("Gold Stream")
Date 1747-1749
Location Sichuan
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing Empire Jinchuan tribes
Commanders and leaders
Qianlong Emperor
Zhang Guangsi () (Overall Command) (Executed by Qianlong)
Naqin () (Assistant Commander) (Executed by Qianlong)
Fuheng (Overall Command)
Zhaohui () (Assistant Commander)
Slob Dpon
Tshe Dbang
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown
Second Campaign against Jinchuan
Conquest of the defence tower at the Luobowa mountain.jpg
Qing general Fuk'anggan assaults Luobowa mountain tower
Date 1771-1776
Location Sichuan
Result Qing victory
Belligerents
Qing Empire Jinchuan tribes
Commanders and leaders
Qianlong Emperor
Agui (Overall Command)
Fuk'anggan (Assistant Commander)
Fude (Executed by Qianlong in 1776)
Wenfu  
Sonom
Senggesang
Strength
8,000 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown

The Ten Great Campaigns (Chinese: 十全武功; pinyin: shí quán wǔ gōng) were a series of military campaigns launched by the Qing Empire of China in the mid–late 18th century during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–96). They included three to enlarge the area of Qing control in Central Asia: two against the Dzungars (1755–57) and the pacification of Xinjiang (1758–59). The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established: two wars to suppress Jinchuan rebels in Sichuan, another to suppress rebels in Taiwan (1787–88), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–69), the Vietnamese (1788–89), and the Gurkhas in Nepal on the border between Tibet and India (1790–92), with the last counting as two.

Of the ten campaigns, the final destruction of the Dzungars (or Zunghars) was the most significant. The 1755 Pacification of Dzungaria and the later suppression of the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas secured the northern and western boundaries of Xinjiang, eliminated rivalry for control over the Dalai Lama in Tibet, and thereby eliminated any rival influence in Mongolia. It also led to the pacification of the Islamicised, Turkic-speaking southern half of Xinjiang immediately thereafter.

In 1752, Dawachi and the Khoit-Oirat prince Amursana competed for the title of Khan of the Dzungars. Dawachi defeated Amursana various times and gave him no chance to recover. Amursana was thus forced to flee with his small army to the Qing imperial court. The Qianlong Emperor pledged to support Amursana since Amursana accepted Qing authority; among those who supported Amursana and the Chinese were the Khoja brothers Burhān al-Dīn () and Khwāja-i Jahān (). In 1755, Qianlong sent the Manchu general Zhaohui (), who was aided by Amursana, Burhān al-Dīn and Khwāja-i Jahān, to lead a campaign against the Dzungars. After several skirmishes and small scale battles along the Ili River, the Qing army led by Zhaohui approached Ili (Gulja) and forced Dawachi to surrender. Qianlong appointed Amursana as the Khan of Khoit and one of four equal khans – much to the displeasure of Amursana, who wanted to be the Khan of the Dzungars.


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