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Battle of Nanjing

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China

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Nanjing (1853), part of the Taiping Rebellion. Taiping defeated China. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Taiping
China

ON THE MAPQing Dynasty

Conflict graph

PART OFTaiping Rebellion

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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