Suzhou massacre

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The '''Suzhou massacre''' was an incident involving the [[Huai Army]] ({{lang|zh-Hant|淮軍}}) led by [[Li Hongzhang]] in [[Suzhou]]. The [[Taiping Army]] 200,000 surrendered to Li Hongzhang in December 1863, but Li ordered the deaths of 10,000 [[Prisoner of war|POWs]] on the [[Temple of Two Towers]] ([[Luohan Twin Towers]]) in [[Suzhou]].

==See also== *[[Charles George Gordon]] *[[Cheng Xuechi]] *[[The Warlords]] *[[Tan SauGuan]]

==References== *[[Draft History of Qing]]

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[[Category:Massacres in 1863]] [[Category:Military history of the Qing dynasty]] [[Category:19th-century mass murders in China]] [[Category:Massacres in China]] [[Category:History of Suzhou]] [[Category:1863 in China]] [[Category:December 1863]] [[Category:19th-century prisoner-of-war massacres]] [[Category:Taiping Rebellion]] [[Category:1863 disasters]] [[Category:1860s disasters in Asia]] [[Category:19th-century disasters in China]]