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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 9441431, member: 54"]Official,whose name is on it: <b>Lu Jianying</b> (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" rel="nofollow">Chinese</a>: 陸建瀛; 1776 – 19 March 1853) was the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Liangjiang" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Liangjiang" rel="nofollow">Viceroy of Liangjiang</a> from early 1849 until early 1853. When the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion" rel="nofollow">Taiping Rebellion</a> army occupied <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing" rel="nofollow">Nanjing</a> on 19 March, Lu Jianying was killed by the Taiping.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Jianying#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Jianying#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> Lu was the second to be killed (the first was the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Huguang" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Huguang" rel="nofollow">Viceroy of Huguang</a> in early 1853) and a few of the highest rank governors killed in action in the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" rel="nofollow">Qing dynasty</a>. When Beijing knew of Lu's death and the loss of Nanjing, they chose to impeach Lu in order to place the blame on him, saying he was incapable of commanding the battle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 9441431, member: 54"]Official,whose name is on it: [B]Lu Jianying[/B] ([URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters']Chinese[/URL]: 陸建瀛; 1776 – 19 March 1853) was the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Liangjiang']Viceroy of Liangjiang[/URL] from early 1849 until early 1853. When the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion']Taiping Rebellion[/URL] army occupied [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing']Nanjing[/URL] on 19 March, Lu Jianying was killed by the Taiping.[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Jianying#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] Lu was the second to be killed (the first was the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viceroy_of_Huguang']Viceroy of Huguang[/URL] in early 1853) and a few of the highest rank governors killed in action in the [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty']Qing dynasty[/URL]. When Beijing knew of Lu's death and the loss of Nanjing, they chose to impeach Lu in order to place the blame on him, saying he was incapable of commanding the battle.[/QUOTE]
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