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Lin Fengxiang
Taiping commander who led the 1853 Northern Expedition to the outskirts of Tianjin and was captured at Lianzhen in 1855 after a long siege
A mountain camp at night, with a beacon fire burning on a wooden platform at the upper left, several white tents on the slope and a red cloth tied to a rope; a wooden palisade with a gate stands at the right beyond a timber bridge over a rough river, under a clouded moon.
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- Uprising Leaders
Lin Fengxiang was an early Taiping commander whose home is variously given as Wuyuan in Guangxi or Jieyang in Guangdong. After the Taipings took Nanjing he set out in May 1853 as Vice Chancellor of Heaven, leading the Northern Expedition with Li Kaifang through Anhui and Henan and across the Yellow River into Zhili. By October his army had reached Jinghai and Duliu just outside Tianjin, but cut off from support it fell back the next spring to Fucheng and then to Lianzhen. When Senggerinchen's forces took Lianzhen in March 1855, Lin was wounded and captured, taken to Beijing and put to death by slicing. In 1863 the Taiping court posthumously named him King Qiu.
Life and times
Dates 1825 CE–1855 CE