He Chun

He Chun or Her Chyun (和春 ? - 1860) was a Manchu nobleman and military commander of the Qing dynasty. He Chun was a commander of the northern encampment of the Army Group Jiangnan, a unit of the Green Standard Army tasked to defeat the Taiping rebellion.[1] The northern encampment was based near Yangzhou, before the attack on attack on the Taiping capital, Tianjing (Nanjing). However during the Battle of Jiangnan (1860) he was killed the attack on Nanjing.

References

  1. Platt, Stephen (2012). Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom. Knopf.


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