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✦ History

Third Battle of Nanjing

March 14 – July 19, 1864 · Third Battle of Nanjing

Result Qing victory

Zeng Guoquan's Xiang Army took Nanjing, ending the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

On the map Contemporaries

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Qing dynasty

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Imperial China

Hong Xiuquan military commander

Li Xiucheng military commander

Zeng Guofan military commander

Zeng Guoquan military commander

Strength and losses

Captured: 200,000

Units

Taiping main army (1851–1864) Li Xiucheng's army