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Ten Days of Yangzhou

Type Event Region Asia Time 1645

From May to June 1645, Qing forces under Dodo besieged Yangzhou; after the fall of the city they massacred its residents, an event known as the Ten D…

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  1. 1645Yangzhou · JiangnanQing prince Dodo led forces south to besiege Yangzhou. Shi Kefa, holding the title of Minister of War, commanded the defense north of the Yangtze, holding the city with soldiers and civilians and refusing Qing calls to surrender.
  2. 1645Yangzhou · JiangnanQing forces breached Yangzhou; Shi Kefa was captured and killed without yielding. With Yangzhou, the core of defenses north of the Yangtze, lost, the barrier north of the Yangtze collapsed and Nanjing lay open.
  3. 1645Yangzhou · JiangnanAfter the city fell, Qing forces carried out a large-scale massacre of Yangzhou's residents lasting about ten days. Wang Xiuchu's Ten Days in Yangzhou and other records document the atrocities; the event became an important historical memory of anti-Qing sentiment in Jiangnan.

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