~30,000 10,000 Location Nanjing, China | Date March 1853 Combatants China, Qing dynasty | |
Result Taiping troops victory, Fall of Nanjing, changed name of Tianjing (天京) Similar Taiping Rebellion, Battle of Chinkiang, Panthay Rebellion, Sino‑Sikh War, Jintian Uprising | ||
The Battle of Nanjing (1853) (Chinese: 太平軍攻佔南京; pinyin: Taiping jun gongzhan Nánjīng; Wade–Giles: Nan-ching Pao-wei Chan) began after the fall of Wuhan on March 8, 1853, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanking on March 19, 1853 to Taiping troops, a few days after the Qing Government evacuated the city.
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