Zeng Guoquan (曾國荃)

Overview

Zeng Guoquan was a general and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1859 九年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 74
AD 1888 光緒十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 97
AD 1864 同治三年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passages 84-85
AD 1862 同治元年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 46

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 46
AD 1888 光緒十四年
At Two Jiangs 兩江 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 97

Events and relationships

Advanced down Yangtze
AD 1862 同治元年 · Military · Commander · At Yangtze 江
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 46
Erected stele
AD 1888 光緒十四年 · Commemorative · Sponsor · At Longbozi Mountain 龍膊子山 · With Zhu Hongzhang (朱洪章)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 97
Ordered generals to sign military oaths
AD 1864 同治三年 · Administrative · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 85
Retook
AD 1859 九年 · Military · Commander · At Jingdezhen 景德鎮
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 74
Relation Commander of · Person Fusi (孚泗)
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 46
Relation Commander of · Person Zhu Hongzhang (朱洪章)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passages 74-75

Assessments and attributes

Item commemorative stele 碑 · Relation Erected · At Longbozi Mountain 龍膊子山
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 97

Source notes

Value historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 414, passage 46

References in the histories

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 · 7 passages

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同治元年，國荃循江東下，孚泗為前鋒，攻拔西梁山。 In the first year of Tongzhi, as Guoquan drove down the Yangtze, Fusi led the van and stormed West Liang Mountain.

九年，從曾國荃复景德鎮，复官，以守備補用。 In the ninth year he followed Guoquan in retaking Jingdezhen, regained his rank, and was posted as garrison commander.

遂從曾國荃部下，戰績始著。 He then served under Guoquan, and his record in battle first came to notice.

從國荃由皖東下，連奪沿江要隘，擢副將。 He followed Guoquan’s drive east from Anhui down the Yangtze, taking one strategic pass after another, and was made brigade commander.

國荃召諸將署名具軍令狀，洪章署第一，武明良第二，劉連捷第三，其他以次署畢，共得九人。 Guoquan called the generals to sign written military oaths; Hongzhang signed first, Wu Mingliang second, Liu Lianjie third, and the rest in order until nine names were on the list.

十四年，因病乞開缺，病痊，曾國荃調留兩江，洪章憑弔龍膊子山，祭死士瘞所，國荃為樹碑紀事。 In the fourteenth year he asked to resign on grounds of illness; when he recovered, Guoquan kept him in the Two Jiangs region; Hongzhang went to Longbozi Mountain to mourn the dead, offered sacrifice at their burial ground, and Guoquan set up a stele to commemorate it.

詔宣付史館，從優議卹，諡武慎，附祀曾國籓、國荃、胡林翼專祠。 The throne ordered the report sent to the Historiographical Institute, directed generous posthumous honors, and gave him the name Wushen, with a place in the dedicated shrines of Zeng Guofan, Guoquan, and Hu Linyi.