Li Yuandu (李元度) | 24 Histories

Overview

Li Yuandu was an official and Military Officer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Ciqing	次青	Cìqīng

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1857 咸豐七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 243-247
AD 1855 咸豐五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 238
AD 1854 咸豐五年前
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 235-237
AD 1858 咸豐八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 248-249
AD 1856 咸豐六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 239-242

Career and standing

intendant of the Wenzhou-Chuzhou circuit 浙江溫處道
AD 1858 咸豐八年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 249
instructor of Qianyang 黔陽教諭
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 236
circuit commissioner (listed) 道員記名
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Listed for
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 247
prefect 知府
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Promoted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 247
Se'erguleng Batulu 色爾固楞巴圖魯
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Awarded
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 247
brevet provincial surveillance commissioner 按察使銜
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 247

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 235
At Pingjiang, Hunan 湖南平江
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 235
AD 1855 咸豐五年
At Hukou 湖口 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 238

Learning and skills

Held
Credential provincial graduate 舉人
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 236

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · With Zeng Guofan (曾國籓) · Summary long memorial on military affairs
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 237

Events and relationships

Defended
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Military · Commander · At Yushan 玉山
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 243-245
Wounded
AD 1857 咸豐七年 · Military · Commander · At Yushan 玉山
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 244
Relation Staff of · Person Zeng Guofan (曾國籓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 237
Relation Colleague of · Person Lin Yuan'en (林源恩)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 239

Assessments and attributes

bullet struck left cheek
Physical injury
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 244

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 432Volume 432 Biographies 219: Xiao Qijiang, Zhang Yunlan, Tang Xunfang, Jiang Ningxue, Chen Shi, Li Yuandu · 7 passages

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李元度，字次青，湖南平江人。 Li Yuandu, styled Ciqing, came from Pingjiang in Hunan.

曾國籓在籍治團練，元度上書數千言言兵事，國籓壯之，招入幕。 When Zeng Guofan organized militia at home, Yuandu sent a long memorial on military affairs; Guofan was impressed and took him onto his staff.

咸豐五年，國籓移軍江西，令元度募勇三千屯湖口。 In 1855 Guofan moved into Jiangxi and had Yuandu raise three thousand men and encamp at Hukou.

元度突圍出，移屯貴溪，防廣信。 Yuandu broke out, moved to Guixi, and held Guangxin.

七年，賊二萬來襲玉山，守卒僅七百人，元度迎戰，斷賊浮梁，賊以步隊綴軍，騎賊趨上游跐水渡。 In 1857 twenty thousand rebels attacked Yushan; only seven hundred men held the town; Yuandu fought them, cut their pontoon at Fuliang, while infantry delayed his force and cavalry forded upstream.

乃回城拒守，被攻兩晝夜，元度立埤兒間，彈中左頰。 He fell back to defend the city; after two days and nights of assault he stood among the parapets and a bullet struck his left cheek.

元度先已累擢知府，以道員記名，至是加按察使銜，賜號色爾固楞巴圖魯。 He had already risen to prefect and been entered for circuit commissioner; now he received the brevet rank of provincial surveillance commissioner and the Manchu title Se'erguleng Batulu.