Fiongdon
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Fiongdon (Manchu: ᡶᡳᡠᠩᡩᠣᠨ, Möllendorff: fiongdon, Abkai: fiongdon; Chinese:
Biography
[edit]Background
[edit]He was a member of the Guwalgiya clan, and the Bordered Yellow Banner, was the second son of a Suwan (
Military service
[edit]Fiongdon proved himself to be a strong and an excellent fighter and he was given the eldest granddaughter of Nurhaci to wife and was appointed to a position of importance. He repaid this trust by uncovering a plot against Nurhaci and by executing the ringleader of the plot who was his own brother-in-law. In return for this he received the title jargūci (扎爾
Fiongdon led the attack on Fushun in 1618 in which the Manchus clashed with the Chinese for the first time. He followed this up by defeating the army of the Chinese general Tu Sung in the following year. A few months before his death he aided in the final defeat of the Yehe tribe and the capture of its beile Gintaisi.
Legacy
[edit]References
[edit]- Kennedy, George A. (1943). Hummel, Arthur W. Sr. (ed.). Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office. . In
- Crossley, Pamela Kyle (1990). Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691055831