Mingrui

Mingrui Chinese: 明瑞
Died	March 1768 near Pyinoolwin, Kingdom of Myanmar
Allegiance	Qing Dynasty
Service/branch	Bannerman Army
Years of service	17?–1768
Rank	Governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou
Commands held	Burma Campaign (1767–1768)
Battles/wars	Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) (1767–1768)

Mingrui (Chinese: 明瑞, Burmese: မင်းယွီ, Burmese pronunciation: [mɪ́ɴ jwì]; d. March 1768) was governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou from April 1767 to March 1768. A son-in-law of the Qianlong Emperor of China, Mingrui was appointed by the emperor to lead a 50,000-strong invasion force led by the elite Manchu Bannermen in the third campaign of the Qing invasions of Burma. While his 1767–1768 campaign was the most successful of the four invasions by the Chinese, his army was annihilated at the Battle of Maymyo in March 1768.^[1][2] He committed suicide, and sent in his queue to the emperor as a token of loyalty.^[3]

He was a nephew of Fuheng, the chief grand councilor to the emperor, who led the last and final campaign of 1769.

See also

• Ten Great Campaigns

References

1. ^ Thant Myint-U (2006). The River of Lost Footsteps--Histories of Burma. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-374-16342-6. 
2. ^ Charles Patterson Giersch (2006). Asian borderlands: the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier. Harvard University Press. pp. 100–110. ISBN 10: 0674021711. 
3. ^ Htin Aung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. pp. 178–179. 

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Date of death	1768
Place of death	near Pyinoolwin, Kingdom of Myanmar