Luo Rongguang (羅榮光)

Overview

The translated histories identify Luo Rongguang as a general and military officer. This record brings together 14 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Luo Rongguang	羅榮光	Luo Rongguang
Title	Commissioner Luo Rongguang	提督羅榮光
Title	Guoyong Batulu	果勇巴圖魯
Surname	Luo	羅
Personal name	Luo Rongguang	羅榮光	Luó Róngguāng
Given	Rongguang	榮光

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:465:s0122, qingshigao:467:s0002

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died at Dagu forts / 赴難 · Place: Dagu / 大沽 · Age: Value: 67 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Age

Age: 67 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Source Date: Text: 光緒七年 · Western Year: AD 1881
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Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
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Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1864
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Source Date: Text: 聯軍 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Family

Kinship Role: household-dependents · Count: 2 · Approximate: true
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Career and standing

Label: provincial commander of Kashgar / 喀什噶爾提督 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Label: regional commander of Tianjin / 天津鎮總兵 · Action: appointed
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Label: Provincial Commander / Commissioner / 提督 · Action: held
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Qianzhou, Hunan / 湖南乾州
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defended Dagu forts · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: refused-allied-demands-defeated · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 大沽 · Western Year: AD 1900
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References in the histories

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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 · 1 passage

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聯軍索益堅，提督羅榮光不允，戰失利，而裕祿且上天津團民殺敵狀，於是朝廷以團民為可恃，宣戰詔書遂下，而不知大沽已先數日失矣。 The allies pressed harder; Commissioner Luo Rongguang refused and was defeated; yet Yu Lu also reported Tianjin militia victories, and the court, believing the militia dependable, declared war—unaware the Taku forts had fallen days earlier.

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 · 13 passages

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李秉衡王廷相聶士成羅榮光壽山族孫瑞昌鳳翔崇玉等 Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, and Shoushan's kinsmen Ruichang, Fengxiang, Chongyu, and others

羅榮光，湖南乾州人。 Luo Rongguang came from Qianzhou in Hunan.

攻常州，先登，城复，遷副將，賜號果勇巴圖魯。 At the assault on Changzhou he was first over the wall; when the city fell he was made deputy commander and granted the title Guoyong Batulu.

六年，東捻擾魯疆，榮光以偏師游弋淮南北，敗捻於運。 In 1867, when the eastern Nian raided Shandong, Rongguang led a detached column along the Huai and defeated them on the Grand Canal.

明年，西捻窺滑、濬，我師躡之，榮光戰數挫，而勇氣彌厲。 The next year the western Nian probed Hua and Jun; as our forces pursued them, Rongguang suffered several defeats, yet fought all the more fiercely.

鴻章謀困之黃、運間，緣河築長壘，榮光壁當敵衝，相持凡三閱月。 Li Hongzhang planned to trap them between the Yellow River and the Grand Canal and built long earthworks along the waterways; Rongguang's rampart lay in the enemy's path, and the standoff lasted three months.

會霖雨，寇多陷淖死，榮光復躡之東北，勢益蹙，張總愚自沉於河。 When torrential rains came, many rebels sank in the mud and died; Rongguang pursued them northeast; their plight grew desperate, and Zhang Zongyu drowned himself in the river.

既而北塘、山海關相繼設，皆受成於榮光。 Beitang and Shanhaiguan soon followed with similar units, all trained under Rongguang's supervision.

二十六年，擢喀什噶爾提督，未之官而拳亂起，八國兵艦入寇，榮光守大沽砲台。 In 1900 he was promoted to provincial commander of Kashgar, but before he could take office the Boxer uprising broke out; the fleets of eight powers invaded, and Rongguang held the Dagu forts.

榮光備益嚴，乃佯就款，使人言於裕祿，謂第得四五艘入口護僑商，無他意，裕祿許之。 Rongguang tightened his defenses; the enemy then feigned negotiation and told Yulu through an envoy that only four or five ships wished to enter to protect their nationals, with no other intent—and Yulu consented.

榮光聞而大驚，力阻，而敵艦已踵入，將及台，遽出砲仰擊。 Rongguang was appalled and tried to stop them, but the enemy ships had already entered; as they neared the forts he opened fire at once.

榮光再謁裕祿乞發戰令，諜者已報台毀，榮光憤極，歸，拔刀殺眷屬，曰：「毋令辱外人手！」 Rongguang again begged Yulu for the order to fight; spies had already reported the forts lost; in fury he returned, drew his sword, and killed his family, crying: "They must not be shamed by foreigners!"

榮光爭大沽，鳳翔守愛琿，雖已無救於大局，而至死不屈，外人亦為之奪氣，何其壯哉！ Rongguang fought at Dagu and Fengxiang held Aihui; though neither could alter the larger outcome, both died unbowed, and even the foreigners were struck with awe—how splendid their courage!