Chen Deicai (陳得才)

Overview

Chen Deicai was a rebel.

PeriodQing

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1864 同治三年
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 192

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Rebelled against
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 192

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 430Volume 430 Biographies 217: Lei Zhengwan, Tao Maolin, Cao Kezhong, Hu Zhonghe, He Shengbi, Xiao Qinggao, Yang Fudong, Zhou Dawu, Li Huiwu, Tang Yougeng · 2 passages

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粵匪陳得才圍漢中，眾號十萬，石達開亦由高縣走寧遠，全蜀大震。 The Taiping rebel Chen Deicai besieged Hanzhong with forces said to number one hundred thousand. Shi Dakai also marched from Gaoxian toward Ningyuan, and all Sichuan was thrown into alarm.

三年，得才之黨梁福成合川匪蔡昌齡由漢中竄甘肅階州，達武議以剿為防，率師越境，攻克江東水、嚴家灣賊壘。 In the third year Deicai's follower Liang Fucheng united with the Sichuan bandit Cai Changling in breaking from Hanzhong into Jiezhou, Gansu. Dawu held that the best defense was to pursue and destroy them, crossed the border with his army, and captured the rebel forts at Jiangdongshui and Yanjiawan.