Gao Tianxi (高天喜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Gao Tianxi as a general and military officer. This record brings together 10 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	Gao Tianxi	高天喜	Gao Tianxi
Surname	Gao	高	Gao
Posthumous	Guoyi	果義
Given	Tianxi	天喜	Tianxi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:315:s0002

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed in battle / 沒於陣 · Place: Black River / Yarkand campaign / 葉爾羌黑水
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0016

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1757
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0008
Source Date: Text: 二十三年十月 · Western Year: AD 1758
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:315:s0014, qingshigao:315:s0016
Source Date: Text: 雍正中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1723 · End: AD 1735
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:315:s0005

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Zunghar (adopted into Gao family) / 準噶爾
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0005
Lineage: adopted into the Gao clan register / 高氏撫為子，因從其族籍
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0006

Career and standing

Label: assistant deputy commander at Jinta / 金塔協副將 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0012
Label: commander of the Xining garrison / 西寧鎮總兵 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0013
Label: defender of Baoning Fort / 保寧堡守備 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0007
Label: leading-column grand minister / 領隊大臣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0013
Label: posthumous title Guoyi / 諡果義 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0018

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:315:s0002
Place: Xining, Gansu / 甘肅西寧
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0004
Organization: Shrine of Manifest Loyalty / 昭忠祠 · Relation: enshrined-in
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0046

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: fought-and-died · Other Person Id: Zhaohui (兆惠)
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0016

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: bravest death among those who fell fighting with E Shi and San Ge · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0212
Assessment: lamented in an imperial poem · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝)
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0017
Item: a thousand taels of silver / 白金千 · Relation: bestowed
Explicit · qingshigao:315:s0018

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 315Volume 315 Biographies 102: Gao Tianxi, E Shi, San Ge, He Qi, Tang Kalu, A Min Dao, Man Fu, Dou Bin, Duan Ji Bu, Nuo Er Ben · 10 passages

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高天喜鄂實三格和起唐喀祿阿敏道滿福 Gao Tianxi, E Shi, San Ge, He Qi, Tang Kalu, A Mindao, Man Fu

高天喜，甘肅西寧人。 Gao Tianxi was a native of Xining in Gansu.

天喜本準噶爾人，雍正中為我師所俘。 Tianxi was originally a Zunghar who had been taken prisoner by the Qing forces during the Yongzheng reign.

乾隆二十二年，副將軍兆惠擊伊犁，天喜從參將邁斯漢赴援。 In the twenty-second year of the Qianlong reign, when Deputy General-in-Chief Zhaohui marched against Ili, Tianxi went as a subordinate of Colonel Maisihan to reinforce him.

巴里坤辦事大臣雅爾哈善以聞，上即奪邁斯漢官以命天喜。 Yarghashi, the minister resident at Barkul, reported the matter to the throne, and the emperor at once removed Maisihan from office and put Tianxi in command.

天喜督兵修橋渡師，未及半，賊大至。 Tianxi directed his men in building a bridge to get the army across, but before even half the force had crossed, a large rebel host appeared.

天喜聞兆惠陷賊陣，舍橋亟赴之，奮與賊戰，與鄂實、三格、特通額俱沒於陣。 Hearing that Zhaohui was caught in the enemy lines, Tianxi left the bridge unfinished and rushed to his relief. He fought the rebels with desperate valor and fell in battle together with E Shi, San Ge, and Tetonge.

諡果義，又賜其家白金千。 He was posthumously honored with the title Guoyi, and his family was granted a thousand taels of silver besides.

天喜、鄂實、三格並祀昭忠祠，予騎都尉兼雲騎尉世職。 Tianxi, E Shi, and San Ge were all enshrined in the Shrine of Manifest Loyalty and granted the combined hereditary ranks of commandant of cavalry and commandant of the cloud cavalry.

論曰：高天喜驍勇善戰，與鄂實、三格奮鬥破陣，死事為最烈。 The commentator writes: Gao Tianxi was brave and skilled in battle. Together with E Shi and San Ge he fought with desperate valor to break the enemy lines, and among those who fell in service his death was the most heroic.