Zuo Baogui (左寶貴) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zuo Baogui as a general and military officer. This record brings together 18 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	Zuo Baogui	左寶貴	Zuo Baogui
Given	Baogui	寶貴	Baogui
Given	Baogui	寶貴	Bǎoguì
Courtesy	Guanting	冠廷	Guanting
Title	Kense Batulu	鏗色巴圖魯	Kense Batulu
Posthumous	Zhongzhuang	忠壯	Zhongzhuang
Surname	Zuo	左	Zuo
Personal name	Zuo Baogui	左寶貴	Zuǒ Bǎoguì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0003
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0084

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed-in-battle · Cause: cannon fire · Place: Pyongyang / 平壤 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0025, qingshigao:460:s0013
Cause: killed by shellfire / 為砲所中而殞 · Place: Xuanwu Gate Ridge, Pyongyang / 玄武門嶺
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0086

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0041
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:460:s0013, qingshigao:460:s0014, qingshigao:462:s0067, qingshigao:462:s0084
Source Date: Text: 光緒初 · Western Year: AD 1875
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0008
Source Date: Text: 咸豐初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1851 · End: AD 1853
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0004

Family

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Parent of Guoji (國楫)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Sibling of Bao Xian (寶賢)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Sibling of Bao Qing (寶清)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: commander of the Gaozhou garrison / 高州鎮總兵 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0011
Label: guerrilla officer / 游擊 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0007
Label: registered nominal provincial commander / 記名提督 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0010
Label: vice commander / 副將 · Action: promoted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0007
Label: double-eyed peacock feather / 雙眼花翎 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0012
Label: Kense Batulu / 鏗色巴圖魯 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0010
Label: yellow riding jacket / 黃馬褂 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0012
Label: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0027
Title: Commandant of Cavalry with one Yun Commandant / 騎都尉兼一云騎尉 · Action: granted-hereditary
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0027

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:460:s0004
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0084
Place: Fei County, Shandong / 山東費
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0003
Place: Fengtian / 奉天 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0008, qingshigao:460:s0011
Place: Shenyang / 瀋陽 · Relation: stationed-at
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0012

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: executioner · Action: beheaded · Other Person Id: Gao Xizhen (高希珍) · Place: Tumen / 土門
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0009
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Miao Peilin (苗沛霖) · Place: Jinling/Nanjing / 金陵
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0006
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defended-city · Place: Pyongyang / 平壤 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0015, qingshigao:460:s0017
Kind: military · Role: executioner · Action: executed · Other Person Id: Song Sanhao (宋三好) · Place: Shibazi / 石砬子
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0009
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: fought-with · Other Person Id: Fengshen'e (丰紳阿)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0018
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: held-gate · Place: Xuanwu Gate / 玄武門
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0021
Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held-Xuanwu-Gate-Ridge-to-death
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0086
Kind: military · Role: guardian · Action: prevented-Ye-from-fleeing · Other Person Id: Ye Zhichao (葉志超)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0085
Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: resisted-Japanese-at-Pyongyang
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0084
Relation: served-under · Person Id: Sengge Rinchen (僧格林沁)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0007
Relation: accompanied · Person Id: Chongshi (崇實)
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0008

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: brave and capable general · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Zhang Baixi (張百熙)
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0041
Assessment: paired as One of the Two Loyal Ones with Deng Shichang · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0082, qingshigao:460:s0154
Kind: injury · Statement: badly wounded resisting Japanese
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0084

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 1 passage

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百熙疏劾李鴻章陽作戰備，陰實主和，左寶貴、聶士成皆勇敢善戰之將，以餉械不繼，遂致敗績，咎在鴻章； Baixi memorialized against Li Hongzhang, charging that he made a show of preparing for war while secretly favoring peace. Zuo Baogui and Nie Shicheng were both brave and capable generals, but because pay and arms were not supplied in time they were defeated—the blame lay with Hongzhang.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 460Volume 460 Biographies 247: Zuo Baogui Younger Brother: Bao Xian, Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng, Dai Zongqian · 14 passages

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左寶貴弟寶賢等永山鄧世昌劉步蟾林泰曾等戴宗騫 Zuo Baogui (and his younger brother Bao Xian and others), Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng and others, and Dai Zongqian

左寶貴，字冠廷，山東費人。 Zuo Baogui, styled Guanting, was a native of Fei County in Shandong.

嘗令當前敵，陣既接，旗兵中砲，殪，寶貴持其幟衝鋒入，大捷，繇是知名。 Once placed in the forefront against the enemy, he saw the standard-bearer cut down by cannon fire as battle was joined; Baogui seized the banner and led the charge himself, winning a great victory, and from that day his name was known.

光緒初，尚書崇實巡視奉天、吉林，奏自隨。 Early in the Guangxu reign, when Minister Chongshi toured Fengtian and Jilin, he memorialized that Baogui accompany him.

邊外東北廟溝金宮四構黨圖大舉，复捕治之，餘燼悉平，賜號鏗色巴圖魯，晉記名提督。 When conspirators beyond the border at Dongbei Miaogou and Jingongsi plotted a major uprising, he captured and punished them again until every ember of revolt was extinguished; he was granted the title Kense Batulu and advanced to registered nominal provincial commander.

朝議既決戰，衛汝貴、馬玉昆、丰紳阿各率所部往御之，寶貴自奉天來會，是為四大軍。 Once the court resolved on war, Wei Rugui, Ma Yukun, and Fengshen'e each led their commands to resist the invader; Baogui came down from Fengtian to join them — the force known as the Four Great Armies.

於是汝貴、玉昆軍南門外大同江，志超部將江自康軍北門外小山，寶貴任城守。 Rugui and Yukun took position on the Datong River south of the southern gate; Ye Zhichao's subordinate Jiang Zikang held the hill north of the northern gate; and Baogui was charged with defending the city itself.

未止舍，日軍猝至，寶貴與丰紳阿擊卻之。 They had scarcely made camp when Japanese troops struck without warning; Baogui and Fengshen'e drove them back.

時寶貴扼玄武門，日軍大隊至。 Baogui was holding the Xuanwu Gate when a large Japanese column came up.

志超將潰圍北歸，寶貴不從，以兵守志超勿令逸。 Ye Zhichao was preparing to break out northward; Baogui refused to go along and posted troops to keep Ye from slipping away.

寶貴狃於捕馬賊之功，頗輕敵。 Baogui, overconfident after years of chasing down mounted bandits, took the enemy too lightly.