Black Flag Army
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The Black Flag Army was a splinter remnant of a bandit and mercenary group recruited largely from soldiers of ethnic Zhuang background and former Taiping soldiers who crossed the border in 1865 from G
A Black Flag ambush, 1883
Black Flag soldiers, 1873
A soldier of the Black Flag Army, 1885
A Black Flag banner, captured by the French at Hòa Mộc (2 March 1885) and now displayed in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris
Taiping Rebellion
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The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War, Revolution, or Movement, was a civil war in late imperial China between the Qing dynasty and the rebel Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflic
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…Wu Hezhong. Although not part of the Taiping forces, both Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yazhong laid claim to be Taiping "princes". After Qing forces crushed the Taiping Rebellion in 1864 in Nanking, the Qing army proceeded to destroy systematically the many armed bands of their south-eastern provinces. Hotly pursued, the desperate…
Top: The Battle of Anqing (1861), 1884 painting Bottom: A battle on the Yangtze between Qing and Taiping naval forces
Regaining the Provincial City Anqing 2
An alleged drawing of Hong Xiuquan, dating from around the early 1850s
Qing troops retaking Suzhou