Taiping rebellion

Taiping rebellion
Taiping Tai"ping", or Taeping Tae"ping", a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the

{Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


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