Li Shixian (李世賢) | 24 Histories

Overview

Li Shixian was a rebel Commander.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1864 同治三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 132
AD 1863 二年，粵匪李世賢北竄
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 161
AD 1864 同治三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 135; Draft History of Qing 433, passage 124
AD 1864 同治三年前後
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 423, passage 129
AD 1863 同治二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 204
AD 1862 同治元年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passages 111-112

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AD 1862 同治元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 127; Draft History of Qing 432, passage 201
AD 1865 同治四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 76; Draft History of Qing 433, passage 136
AD 1862 李世賢
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 166
AD 1861 to AD 1862 當是時
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 150

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Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Opposed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 161
Polity Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國 · Relation Rebelled against Qing
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 433, passage 124
Polity Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passages 150, 166; Draft History of Qing 429, passages 127, 135
Polity Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 201

Events and relationships

Attacked with massed force
AD 1862 同治元年 · Military · Commander · At Yanxing 顏行 · With Liu Lianjie (劉連捷)
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 112
Broke north
AD 1863 粵匪李世賢北竄 · Military · Rebel leader · At Shucheng / Lu'an 舒城 / 六安
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 161
Defeated fled
AD 1865 同治四年 · Military · Chief · At Zhangzhou 漳州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 76
Fled west from fallen Zhangzhou, met Guoqi below the pagoda; 20,000 men surrendered
AD 1865 同治四年 · Military · Fleeing commander · With Kang Guoqi (康國器)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 433, passage 136
Invaded
AD 1864 同治三年 · Military · Invader · At Jiangxi 江西
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 420, passage 132
Marched from Jiangshan and was ambushed
AD 1862 同治元年 · Military · Commander · At Jiangshan 江山
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 127

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Resisted
AD 1863 同治二年 · Military · Chief · At Wuxi 無錫
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 431, passage 204
With Wang Haiyang seized Zhangzhou
AD 1864 同治三年 · Military · Commander · With Wang Haiyang (汪海洋) · At Zhangzhou 漳州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 135
Relation Allied with · Person Wang Haiyang (汪海洋)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 433, passage 124

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 112; Draft History of Qing 420, passage 132

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 405Volume 405 Biographies 192: Ceng Guofan · 2 passages

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當是時，偽天王洪秀全僭號踞金陵，偽忠王李秀成等犯蘇、滬，偽侍王李世賢等陷浙杭，偽輔王楊輔清等屯寧國，偽康王汪海洋窺江西，偽英王陳玉成屯廬州，捻首苗霈霖出入潁、壽，與玉成合，圖竄山東、河南，眾皆號數十萬。 At that time the false Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan held Jinling in regal pretension; the false Loyal King Li Xiucheng and others attacked Suzhou and Shanghai; the false Attendant King Li Shixian and others seized Zhejiang and Hangzhou; the false Assistant King Yang Fuqing and others held Ningguo; the false King of Kang Wang Haiyang watched Jiangxi; the false Brave King Chen Yucheng held Luzhou; Nian chief Miao Peilin moved in and out of Ying and Shou, cooperating with Yucheng and plotting to break into Shandong and Henan—all claiming forces in the hundreds of thousands.

時洪秀全被圍久，召李秀成蘇州，李世賢浙江，悉眾來援，號六十萬，圍雨花台軍。 At this time Hong Xiuquan, long besieged, summoned Li Xiucheng from Suzhou and Li Shixian from Zhejiang; they came with all their forces, claiming six hundred thousand men, and besieged the army at Yuhuatai.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 414Volume 414 Biographies 201: Li Chendian, Xiao Fusi, Zhu Hongzhang, Liu Lianjie, Peng Yuju, Zhang Shiri, Wu Weishou, Zhu Nangui, Luo Fengyuan, Li Xianghe, Xiao Qingyan, Wu Zongguo · 1 passage

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連捷軍屯顏行，李秀成、李世賢糾大眾來攻，以炸砲破營壁，連捷築橫牆拒之，常乘賊懈夜出破賊壘。 Lianjie's troops were at Yanxing when Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian mustered a huge force; shellfire breached the camp wall, but Lianjie threw up a cross-wall to hold the line and repeatedly exploited rebel lapses to raid their forts by night.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 420Volume 420 Biographies 207: Han Chao, Tian Xingshu, Ceng Biguang, Xi Baotian · 1 passage

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三年，李世賢、黃文金復合犯江西，將以遙掣江寧之師，寶田逆擊白沙關，奪梘橋要隘，鈔擊於大濟關、泥嶺關，賊竄山谷，復金谿，以按察使記名，授雲南按察使。 In the third year Li Shixian and Huang Wenjin again invaded Jiangxi to tie down the Nanjing army. Baotian met them at Baishaguan, seized Jiqiao pass, struck at Dajiguan and Nilingguan, drove the rebels into the hills, recovered Jinxi, was registered as judicial commissioner, and was appointed judicial commissioner of Yunnan.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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又聞李世賢自率巨股由淳安、遂安接踵而至，曾國籓、左宗棠等用兵日久，前此屢陳不亟求功旦夕，同一老謀深計，獨於皖、浙毗境豫作防維之策，則國籓意在徽、寧各飭所部分防，宗棠以為不若並力取廣德扼賊竄路。 Li Shixian was said to be leading a large force through Chun'an and Suian. Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang had long urged patience, yet on the Anhui-Zhejiang border they disagreed: Zeng wanted separate garrisons at Huizhou and Ningguo, while Zuo preferred a combined strike on Guangde to block the rebels' escape.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 429Volume 429 Biographies 216: Jiang Zhongyi, Zhou Kuanshi, Shi Qingji, Yu Jichang, Lin Wencha, Zhao Deguang, Zhang Wende · 2 passages

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李世賢自江山來援，文察設伏大柘、大廟及石練山之前後，賊至，擊走之。 Li Shixian marched from Jiangshan to relieve them, but Wencha had laid ambushes around Dazhe, Damiao, and Mount Shilian and drove the rebels back when they arrived.

粵匪李世賢、汪海洋合陷漳州，文察倉猝率二百人內渡，遇賊萬松關，歿於陣，贈太子少保，予騎都尉世職，諡剛愍。 When Guangdong rebels Li Shixian and Wang Haiyang together seized Zhangzhou, Wencha hurried back across the strait with only two hundred men, met the enemy at Wansong Pass, and fell in battle; he was posthumously made Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent, his family received a hereditary Commandant of Cavalry, and he was given the posthumous name Gangmin.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 431Volume 431 Biographies 218: Guo Songlin, Li Changle, Yang Dingxun, Tang Diankui, Tang Dingkui, Teng Siwu, Luo Guozhong · 2 passages

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松林分兵為八隊，長樂居中當賊首李世賢，破走之，竄漳州。 Songlin split his force into eight columns. Changle took the center against the rebel chief Li Shixian, broke him, and drove him toward Zhangzhou.

進次無錫城下，賊首李世賢以全軍拒戰。 He pressed on to camp below Wuxi, where the rebel chief Li Shixian met him with his full army.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 432Volume 432 Biographies 219: Xiao Qijiang, Zhang Yunlan, Tang Xunfang, Jiang Ningxue, Chen Shi, Li Yuandu · 2 passages

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二年，粵匪李世賢北竄，凝學移軍舒城，擊敗之，又追敗之六安，賊引去。 In 1863 the Guangdong rebel Li Shixian broke north; Ningxue moved to Shucheng, beat him off, pursued him to Lu'an and defeated him again, and the enemy withdrew.

同治元年，從國荃攻江寧，建議先並力九洑洲，斷江北接濟，先後會諸軍擊走李秀成、李世賢援眾。 In 1862 he followed Guoquan in the assault on Nanjing, urged that they first concentrate on Jiufu Isle to sever supplies from north of the river, and helped drive off the relief columns of Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 433Volume 433 Biographies 220: Jin Guochen, Huang Chunxi, Wu Kunxiu, Kang Guoqi, Li Hezhang Younger Brother: Zhao Qing, Wu Yulan · 2 passages

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粵匪汪海洋犯閩，陷武平、永平，李世賢踞漳州、龍巖與之合，旁郡縣多沒於賊。 The Taiping rebel Wang Haiyang invaded Fujian, seized Wuping and Yongping, and Li Shixian held Zhangzhou and Longyan in league with him; many neighboring districts fell to the rebels.

時漳州亦下，李世賢西遁，遇國器於塔下，縱兵擊之，降其眾二萬人。 By then Zhangzhou had also fallen; Li Shixian fled west, met Guoqi below the pagoda, was attacked at full strength, and twenty thousand of his men surrendered.