Henry Andres Burgevine

Henry Andres Burgevine

Henry Andres Burgevine (zh-c|c=白齊文(1836–1865) was an American sailor, mercenary and soldier of fortune famous for his military victories for Imperial China during the Taiping Rebellion.

hanghai Foreign Arms Corps

Commander of the Ever Victorious Army

Death in murder?

believe the salvation of Shanghai is owed to him.

Further reading

*Biography "Yankee Adventurer" By Holger Cahill (1930)
*Carr, Caleb "Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward" (1992)
*Macgowan, D. J. "Memoirs of Generals Ward, Burgevine and the Ever-Conquering Legion."
*Smith, Richard J. "Mercenaries and Mandarins: The Ever-Victorious Army in Nineteenth Century China." (1978)
*Spence, Jonathan D. "God's Chinese Son, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" (2002)
*---. "To Change China: Western Advisers in China" (1969)

ources

*Draft History of Qing annals ch131 The American


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