Zhou Dawu (周達武) | 24 Histories

Overview

Zhou Dawu was a general.

PeriodQing

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Mengxiong	夢熊

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1863 同治二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 191
AD 1862 同治元年春
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 186
AD 1859 咸豐九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 181
AD 1858 咸豐八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 178
AD 1861 咸豐十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 185
AD 1860 咸豐十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 183

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AD 1854 咸豐四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 175

Career and standing

brigade general of Jianchang Garrison 四川建昌鎮總兵
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 190
Zhiyong Baturu 質勇巴圖魯
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 188

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 174
At Ningxiang, Hunan 湖南寧鄉
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 174
Organization Xinzi Battalion 信字營 · Relation Commander of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 177
Organization Zhangwu Army 章武軍 · Relation Raised
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 181

Events and relationships

Captured
Military · Commander · With Guo Daodao (郭刀刀)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 189
Captured
Military · Commander · With Zhou Shaoyong (周紹勇)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passage 188
Relation Subordinate of · Person Li Xubin (李續賓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 430, passages 175, 177

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 430Volume 430 Biographies 217: Lei Zhengwan, Tao Maolin, Cao Kezhong, Hu Zhonghe, He Shengbi, Xiao Qinggao, Yang Fudong, Zhou Dawu, Li Huiwu, Tang Yougeng · 8 passages

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周達武，字夢熊，湖南寧鄉人。 Zhou Dawu, whose style was Mengxiong, came from Ningxiang in Hunan.

達武每戰陷陣，手大旗盪決，續賓異之，使領百人曰信字營，常為軍鋒。 In every fight Dawu plunged into the fray, sweeping forward with the great standard. Xubin took notice of him and gave him command of a hundred men in the Xinzi Battalion, and he was often the army's vanguard.

從續賓攻舒城，達武率死士先登，左耳受槍傷，克城後，留守。 Following Xubin against Shucheng, Dawu led dare-to-die men over the walls first, took a musket wound in the left ear, and after the city fell was left to hold it.

俄續賓覆軍三河，舒城守軍亦潰，達武以創重回湖南。 Before long Xubin's army was annihilated at Sanhe and the Shucheng garrison broke as well. Dawu returned to Hunan to recover from his wounds.

九年，石達開圍寶慶，巡撫駱秉章令達武募五百人號曰章武軍，從知府劉岳昭援寶慶，守東關，屢拒戰破賊。 In the ninth year Shi Dakai besieged Baoding. Governor Luo Bingzhang ordered Dawu to raise five hundred men as the Zhangwu Army, follow Prefect Liu Yuezhao to the relief, hold the East Gate, and beat back the rebels again and again.

駱秉章督師四川，調達武從剿。 When Luo Bingzhang assumed command in Sichuan, Dawu was transferred to join the campaign of suppression.

抵涪州，會賊酋周紹勇由大寧竄陝西，達武扼之窄子口，地當兩山間，令部將李輝武逾險而入，賊潰走，追至大竹安吉場，擒紹勇及其黨吳崇禮等，檻送成都斬之，賜號質勇巴圖魯。 At Fuzhou he met the rebel chief Zhou Shaoyong breaking out from Daning into Shaanxi. Dawu blocked him at Zhaizikou between two mountain ranges, ordered his lieutenant Li Huiwu to cross the difficult ground and strike in, the rebels broke and fled, and he pursued to Anji Field in Dazhu. Shaoyong and his follower Wu Chongli were captured, sent in cages to Chengdu for execution, and Dawu was granted the title Zhiyong Baturu.

紹勇與刀刀並為蜀中劇賊，至是悉平，授四川建昌鎮總兵，加提督銜。 Shaoyong and Daodao had been the most formidable rebels in Sichuan. Now that both were subdued, Dawu was appointed brigade general of Jianchang Garrison and given provincial military commissioner rank.