Regional1856

Battle of Nanjing

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China

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Nanjing (1856), part of the Taiping Rebellion. Taiping defeated China.

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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