Major conflict1619
Battle of Sarhū
Sarhū · near Fushun · Liaoning
Estimated casualties
10K – 60Kestimated dead
Ming accounts claim 45,000–60,000 dead across four armies; modern quantitative analyses suggest 10,000–20,000 is more realistic.
SOURCEWikipedia / scholarly reassessment
Series of 1619 battles in which Nurhaci's Later Jin cavalry annihilated the four converging Ming armies (with a Joseon contingent), a decisive turning point in the Manchu rise that led to the Qing conquest of China.
Belligerents2
- Later Jin (Manchu)
- Ming dynasty and Joseon
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Sarhū
- Kenneth Swope, The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Sarhū (1619). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-sarhu · Sources & methodology