Dong Fuxiang (董福祥)

Overview

The translated histories identify Dong Fuxiang as a general and military officer. This record brings together 9 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Dong Fuxiang	董福祥	Dong Fuxiang
Personal name	Dong	董
Personal	Dong Fuxiang	董福祥
Personal name	Dong Fuxiang	董福祥
Personal name	Dong Fuxiang	董福祥	Dǒng Fúxiáng
Alternate	Fuxiang	福祥
Given	Fuxiang	福祥

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:437:s0020, qingshigao:465:s0050, qingshigao:467:s0002

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0050
Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:437:s0020, qingshigao:437:s0025
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:468:s0113
Source Date: Text: 武衛軍 · Western Year: AD 1899
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:467:s0086

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0050

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: commanded-army-near-capital
Explicit · qingshigao:468:s0113
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: failed-to-take-legations
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0099
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ordered-to-disband-Boxers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0050

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 3 passages

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疏請益練新軍，而調甘肅提督董福祥軍入衛京師。 In a memorial he asked to expand the new army's training and to bring Gansu provincial commander Dong Fuxiang's troops to guard the capital.

榮祿乃奏設武衛軍，以聶士成駐蘆臺為前軍，董福祥駐薊州為後軍，宋慶駐山海關為左軍，世凱駐小站為右軍，而自募萬人為中軍，駐南苑。 Rong Lu then proposed the Wuwei Army: Nie Shicheng at Lutai as the Front Army, Dong Fuxiang at Jizhou as the Rear Army, Song Qing at Shanhaiguan as the Left Army, Yuan Shikai at Xiaozhan as the Right Army, while he personally raised ten thousand men for the Central Army at the Southern Park.

福祥率甘軍攻使館，月餘不下； Dong Fuxiang led the Gansu troops against the legations, yet after more than a month they still had not fallen;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 3 passages

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詔各軍營會拏正法，盡拆所設神壇，並諭責剛毅、董福祥親自開導，勒令解散，卒不能阻。 Edicts ordered every garrison to arrest and execute offenders, tear down their altars, and commanded Gang Yi and Dong Fuxiang personally to disband the movement—yet nothing could stop it.

已而拳亂作，董福祥攻使館不下，啟秀薦五台僧禦敵，頗附和之。 When the Boxer rising erupted and Dong Fuxiang failed to overrun the legations, Qi Xiu recommended a Wutai monk to fight the foreigners and lent his support.

而聯軍絡繹登岸，索大沽砲台，裕祿懼，疏告急，請敕董福祥來援。 Allied troops landed in force and demanded the Taku forts; terrified, Yu Lu sent urgent memorials begging the throne to summon Dong Fuxiang.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 467Volume 467 Biographies 254: Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, Shou Shan Zu Sun : Rui Chang, Feng Xiang, Chong Yu · 2 passages

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北洋創立武衛軍，改所部三十營為前軍，與宋慶、董福祥、袁世凱並為統帥。 The Beiyang command created the Wuwei Army; his thirty battalions became the Front Army, and he served as one of its four commanders alongside Song Qing, Dong Fuxiang, and Yuan Shikai.

慶、福祥用舊法訓練，世凱軍仿日式，士成軍則半仿德式，是為武衛四軍。 Song and Dong trained by the old methods, Yuan's force followed the Japanese model, and Shicheng's troops were half trained on the German pattern—these were the four Wuwei armies.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 468Volume 468 Biographies 255: Chong Qi Son: Bao Chu Deng, Zhi Jun, Yan Mao Younger Brother: Yan Zhi, Se Pu Zheng E, Wang Yirong, Xi Yuan, Zong Shibaofeng, Zong Shishoufu Younger Brother: Shou Fandeng, Song Chengxiang, Wang Tieshan · 1 passage

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及拳亂起，乃上書榮祿，言董福祥軍宜託故令離畿甸，然後解散拳民，謂「董為禍根，拳其枝葉耳」。 When the Boxer uprising broke out, he wrote to Rong Lu urging that Dong Fuxiang's army be sent away from the capital on some pretext before disbanding the Boxers, declaring: 'Dong is the root of the calamity; the Boxers are only its branches and leaves.'