Nie Shicheng

Nie Shicheng
Nie Shicheng
Born	聂士成 1836
Died	1900
Allegiance	Qing dynasty
Years of service	1900
Rank	general
Battles/wars	Boxer Rebellion

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Nie.

Nie Shicheng(Chinese: 聂士成; pinyin: Niè Shìchéng; Wade–Giles: Nieh Shih-ch'eng) (1836 – July 1900) was a Chinese general who served the Imperial government during the Boxer Rebellion.

Rising from obscure origins, Nie Shicheng held a highly distinguished military and civil service under the Imperial Chinese government when he was appointed command of the Wuyi army stationed in the Chihli province (near present day Beijing) in 1897, and in 1899, Wuyi army was restructured and renamed as Wuwei Front Troop, which was the most modern Manchu Imperial Army of the time, trained by German military advicers and equipped with German weaponry. Nie began an offensive against rebel guerrilla forces in early 1900. Condemned by the pro-Boxer faction of the Imperial Court, Nie achieved impressive success inflicting large numbers of casualties and taking large numbers of rebel prisoners during the year.

After defeating the first attempt to march to Peking (Beijing) by British Admiral Edward Hobart Seymour, commanding a multinational force, the Seymour Expedition, of over 2,000 men, at the Battle of Tang Ts'u on June 26, 1900, Nie would be killed less than a month later in July during fighting outside Peking. With his death, the Wuwei Front Troop declined greatly contributing to the fall of Peking.

In the Nankai District of Tianjin in present day China, a "Nie Shicheng Martyrs Monument" is located in the area, to General Nie Shichen who died in battle in the Boxer Rebellion at the Battle of Tientsin.^[1]

Wuwei Front Troop

Nie was the commander of Wuwei Front Troop during the war against the Eight Nation Alliance, when his soldiers were the best equipped and best trained among all the five Wuwei Troops.

References

1. ^ Nie Shicheng Martyrs Monument

• Dupuy, Trevor N. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-7858-0437-4

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Name	Nie, Shicheng
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Date of birth	1836
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Date of death	1900
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