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Capture of Wuchang
- When
- December 1852
- Where
- Wuchang
The Taiping army captured Wuchang in December 1852 after reaching the Yangtze River, following its advance north through Hunan.
After besieging Changsha and occupying Yuezhou, the Taiping army pressed north following the Xiang River and reached the Yangtze, capturing Wuchang in December 1852. The supplied passages date this capture only to the month, without a specific day. During the wider rebellion, Wuchang and the surrounding area changed hands several times after this Battle of Wuchang (1852).
Sources
- Taiping Rebellion Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-06
- Wuchang, Wuhan Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-18
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.