Gangta (剛塔) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gangta as a general and military officer. This record brings together 11 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Gangta	剛塔	Gāngtǎ
Personal name	Gangta	剛塔	Gāngtǎ
Clan or house name	Ujikete	烏濟克忒氏

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0130

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Place: Ili exile / 伊犁
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0149

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十九年 · Western Year: AD 1784
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0136
Source Date: Text: 乾隆準噶爾之役 · Western Year: AD 1755
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:335:s0131

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿洲
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0130
Lineage: Ujikete clan / 烏濟克忒氏
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0130

Career and standing

Label: battalion commander, Middle Battalion, Taining Garrison / 泰宁鎮中營游擊 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0132
Label: Zhili provincial commander-in-chief / 直隸提督 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0134
Label: Malan Garrison regional commander / 馬蘭鎮總兵 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0134
Label: vanguard / 前鋒 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0131
Label: Guyuan commander-in-chief / 陝西固原提督 · Action: transferred
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0135
Title: Cloud Cavalry Captain / 雲騎尉 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0131
Status: stripped of office · Action: dismissed · Authority Person Id: Qianlong Emperor (高宗)
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0147
Status: exile · Action: exiled · Place: Ili / 伊犁 · Authority Person Id: Qianlong Emperor (高宗)
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0148

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0130, qingshigao:335:s0131
Organization: Plain Blue Banner / 正藍旗 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0130

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: officer · Action: captured-Linqing · Place: Linqing / 臨清
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0133
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-rebellion · Other Person Id: Tian Wu (田五) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十九年 · Western Year: AD 1784
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0136, qingshigao:335:s0137, qingshigao:335:s0138
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: wounded · Place: Majia Bay / 馬家灣
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0140

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: fought at Shifeng Fort; meritorious though later disgraced · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0153
Item: imperial jade thumb-ring / 上用玉韘 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · qingshigao:335:s0137

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 335Volume 335 Biographies 122: Fu Senga, Yi Leitu, Hu Gui, Yu Jin Ao, Yin Dexi, Gang Ta · 11 passages

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富僧阿伊勒圖胡貴俞金鼇尹德禧剛塔 Fu Senga, Yi Leitu, Hu Gui, Yu Jin'ao, Yin Dexi, and Gangta

固原回李化玉與河州回田五糾眾為亂，攻靖遠，金鼇與涼州副都統圖桑阿合軍討之，逐賊馬營街，固原提督剛塔亦以師來會，多所斬獲。 When the Guyuan Muslim Li Huayu and the Hezhou Muslim Tian Wu raised followers and attacked Jingyuan, Jin'ao joined Deputy Military Governor Tusang'a of Liangzhou to suppress them, driving the rebels toward Maying Street; Guyuan Commander-in-Chief Gangta brought his force to the rendezvous as well, and together they killed or captured a great number of the enemy.

剛塔，烏濟克忒氏，滿洲正藍旗人。 Gangta, of the Ujikete clan, was a Manchu bannerman of the Plain Blue Banner.

剛塔督兵逐賊，殺賊數十，射殪乘馬賊渠，賜上用玉韘、大小荷包。 Gangta led the pursuit, killed dozens of rebels, and shot down the mounted rebel chief; the emperor rewarded him with an imperial jade thumb-ring and large and small purses.

其徒竄據馬家堡，剛塔督兵合圍，賊夜出堡逾山遁，環壘樹木桿，懸衣帽其上，紿官軍，官軍逼壘，乃知賊已走。 The survivors seized Majia Fort; Gangta invested it, but the rebels slipped out by night over the hills, left poles and clothing on the walls to deceive the besiegers, and were long gone before the troops discovered the ruse.

剛塔督兵逐賊，戰於馬家灣，剛塔中矢。 Gangta continued the pursuit and fought at Majia Bay, where he was wounded by an arrow.

上謂馬營街、石峰堡皆通渭地，剛塔方逐賊馬營街，通渭陷不赴援，明善又以攻石峰堡戰死，詔詰責。 The emperor observed that Maying Street and Shifeng Fort lay within Tongwei: Gangta had been chasing rebels at Maying Street when Tongwei fell yet he did not march to its relief, and Mingshan had died assaulting Shifeng Fort—an edict censured him sharply.

剛塔疏言：「獲賊言將自通渭道伏羌、秦州天潼關。」 Gangta memorialized, "Prisoners said the rebels would march from Tongwei through Fuxiang and Qinzhou toward Tiantong Pass."

上責剛塔信賊妄語搖軍心，令福康安傳諭，奪剛塔職，逮送京師。 The emperor accused him of crediting rebel bluster and unsettling the troops, had Fuk'anggan relay the edict, stripped him of rank, and sent him under arrest to the capital.

上方幸熱河，留京王大臣等讞當斬，上以剛塔殲賊渠田五，戰馬家灣身被創，貸死，戍伊犁。 The emperor was at Rehe; the princes and ministers in Beijing recommended execution, but noting that Gangta had destroyed the rebel chief Tian Wu and been wounded at Majia Bay, the emperor spared his life and banished him to Ili.

貴定增城，金鼇、剛塔攻石峰堡，名位顯晦殊，要不可謂無功也，故類次焉。 Hu Gui pacified Zengcheng; Yu Jin'ao and Gangta fought at Shifeng Fort—their reputations rose and fell in different measure, yet none was without real service; hence they are recorded together in this chapter.