Ulan Tai (烏蘭泰) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Ulan Tai as a general and military officer. This record brings together 10 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ulan Tai	烏蘭泰	Ulan Tai
Personal name	Ulan Tai	烏蘭泰	Ulan Tai
Personal name	Ulanga	烏蘭泰	Wulantai
Personal name	Wulantai	烏蘭泰	Wūlántài

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001, qingshigao:423:s0015
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0032

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: wounded by cannon fire / 砲傷 · Place: Jiangjun Bridge / 將軍橋 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0042
Manner: killed in battle · Place: near Guilin / 桂林
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0180

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:392:s0042
Source Date: Text: 咸豐五年前後 · Western Year: AD 1855
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0015
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:392:s0032
Source Date: Text: 都統烏蘭泰軍西南 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0177, qingshigao:384:s0172

Career and standing

Label: Banner Commander / 都統 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0177

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ambushed-rebels
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0032
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: urged-Shuidou-assault · Other Person Id: Yao Ying (姚瑩)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0179
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Xiang Rong (向榮)
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0040

References in the histories

Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 3 passages

Open chapter

永安城小，都統烏蘭泰軍西南，提督向榮軍東北，合滇、黔、楚、蜀兵四萬餘人，賊數千壁險死鬥。 Yong'an was a small city; Banner Commander Ulan Tai held the southwest and Regional Commander Xiang Rong the northeast; together they had more than forty thousand troops from Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang, and Sichuan, while several thousand rebels held the high ground and fought desperately.

瑩與烏蘭泰皆主擊水竇，絕賊外援，向榮不從，自由龍寮嶺進而敗，乃議開水竇一路縱賊逸，尾追擊之。 Yao and Ulan Tai both urged an assault on Shuidou to cut off outside help; Xiang Rong refused, advanced by Longliao Ridge, and was defeated; the command then proposed opening Shuidou to let the rebels escape and chasing them afterward.

瑩力辯其失，賽尚阿仍用向榮策，賊果突圍出犯桂林，烏蘭泰戰死，賽尚阿逮問。 Yao argued strenuously against the plan, but Saišangga followed Xiang Rong's strategy; the rebels broke out, struck toward Guilin, Ulan Tai was killed in battle, and Saišangga was arrested.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 6 passages

Open chapter

烏蘭泰設伏，殲賊甚眾。 Wulantai set an ambush and killed a great many rebels.

達洪阿、烏蘭泰攻雙髻，毀其巢，賊自焚新墟而逸。 Da Hong'a and Wulantai attacked Shuangji and destroyed the rebel base; the rebels burned the new market themselves and escaped.

詔責諸軍並力進攻，水竇為永安要隘，烏蘭泰攻拔之，乃合圍。 The court rebuked the armies and ordered a combined assault; Shuidou was Yong'an's critical pass, and once Wulantai stormed and took it the encirclement was complete.

向榮任北路，烏蘭泰任南路。 Xiang Rong took the northern sector and Wulantai the southern.

烏蘭泰爭之不得，素與榮不協，至是益相水火。 Wulantai objected but could not prevail; he had long been at odds with Xiang Rong, and now their hostility became outright.

而賊遽犯桂林，向榮走間道入城守禦，烏蘭泰尾追至將軍橋，猝被砲傷，旋殞於軍，總兵長瑞、長壽、董光甲、邵鶴齡亦戰歿。 but the rebels at once threatened Guilin; Xiang Rong slipped into the city by a side road to organize the defense; Wulantai pursued to Jiangjun Bridge, was struck down by artillery, and died in camp; brigade generals Chang Rui, Chang Shou, Dong Guangjia, and Shao Heling also fell in battle.

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

Open chapter

如烏蘭泰、塔齊布、江忠源皆難得之將，而多不盡其用，且以死殉。 Generals like Ulanga, Taqibu, and Jiang Zhongyuan were irreplaceable, yet the court often failed to use them fully, and they died in the field.