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Conflict East Asia

Nien Rebellion

1851 CE – 1868 CE · 17 years

A major peasant uprising in northern China concurrent with the Taiping Rebellion. The Nien's mobile cavalry warfare across the North China Plain threatened Beijing before Qing forces finally suppressed the movement.

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Nian Rebellion on Wikipedia.

Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Qing Dynasty
  • Nien rebel armies

Key moments

Defining events in the Nien Rebellion.

  1. 1856-1865 Nien cavalry raids
  2. 1865 Battle of Heze
  3. 1868 Final encirclement in Shandong

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

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