Wang Yijun was a leader of the

Taiping rebels The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a massive rebellion and civil war that was waged in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Han, Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It lasted f ...

in 19th-century China. He was killed in an unsuccessful attempt to retake Zhoushan Island from its

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

garrison on 13 February 1862.

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{{china-bio-stub 1862 deaths Military leaders of the Taiping Rebellion