Dong Fuxiang (董福祥)

Overview

Dong Fuxiang was a Gansu provincial commander.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1895 二十一年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123
AD 1900 二十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 50
AD 1898 二十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 437, passages 20, 25
AD 1900 光緒二十六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 468, passage 113
AD 1899 已，充總理各國事務大臣，時董福祥軍駐南苑
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 442, passage 251
AD 1900 庚子
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 129

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AD 1899 武衛軍
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 467, passage 86

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Career and standing

Kashgar Commander 喀什噶爾提督
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 442, passage 251; Draft History of Qing 465, passage 50; Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123
AD 1899 已，充總理各國事務大臣，時董福祥軍駐南苑
At Southern Hunting Park 南苑 · Relation Stationed at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 442, passage 251
At Gansu 甘肅 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123

Events and relationships

Advanced via Didao to assist suppression
AD 1895 二十一年 · Military · Commander · At Didao 狄道
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123
Commanded army near capital
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 468, passage 113
Entered capital to guard
AD 1900 庚子 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 129
Failed to take legations
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 99
Lifted Hezhou siege with Fulu
AD 1895 二十一年 · Military · Commander · With Fulu (福祿)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 124
Met to plan advance
AD 1895 二十一年 · Military · Commander · With Wei Guangtao (魏光燾) · At Baita Temple 白塔寺
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 125

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Ordered assault on legations
AD 1900 六月 · Military · Commander · With Fulu (福祿)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 133
Ordered Fulu against Yezhuma
AD 1895 二十一年 · Military · Commander · With Fulu (福祿)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 126
Ordered to capital
AD 1900 庚子 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 129
Ordered to disband Boxers
AD 1900 二十六年 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 465, passage 50
Troops at Southern Hunting Park wounded foreign railway engineer
AD 1899 已，充總理各國事務大臣，時董福祥軍駐南苑 · Military · Commander · At Southern Hunting Park 南苑
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 442, passage 251
Relation Superior of · Person Shi Yaochan (石堯臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 495, passage 127

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 442, passage 251; Draft History of Qing 495, passage 123

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 3 passages

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疏請益練新軍，而調甘肅提督董福祥軍入衛京師。 In a memorial he asked to expand the new army's training and to bring Gansu provincial commander Dong Fuxiang's troops to guard the capital.

榮祿乃奏設武衛軍，以聶士成駐蘆臺為前軍，董福祥駐薊州為後軍，宋慶駐山海關為左軍，世凱駐小站為右軍，而自募萬人為中軍，駐南苑。 Rong Lu then proposed the Wuwei Army: Nie Shicheng at Lutai as the Front Army, Dong Fuxiang at Jizhou as the Rear Army, Song Qing at Shanhaiguan as the Left Army, Yuan Shikai at Xiaozhan as the Right Army, while he personally raised ten thousand men for the Central Army at the Southern Park.

福祥率甘軍攻使館，月餘不下； Dong Fuxiang led the Gansu troops against the legations, yet after more than a month they still had not fallen;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 442Volume 442 Biographies 229: Xu Shuming, Xue Yunsheng, Zong Shiyanxu, Zi, Hui Zhang, Wang Mingluan, Zhang Lin, Zhou Jiamei, Zhou Derun, Hu Yufen, Zhang Yinhuan · 1 passage

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已，充總理各國事務大臣，時董福祥軍駐南苑，斫傷鐵路西國工程師，各公使訴於朝，請罷董軍。 Later at the Zongli Yamen, Dong Fuxiang's troops at the Southern Hunting Park wounded a foreign railway engineer; envoys demanded their removal.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 3 passages

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詔各軍營會拏正法，盡拆所設神壇，並諭責剛毅、董福祥親自開導，勒令解散，卒不能阻。 Edicts ordered every garrison to arrest and execute offenders, tear down their altars, and commanded Gang Yi and Dong Fuxiang personally to disband the movement—yet nothing could stop it.

已而拳亂作，董福祥攻使館不下，啟秀薦五台僧禦敵，頗附和之。 When the Boxer rising erupted and Dong Fuxiang failed to overrun the legations, Qi Xiu recommended a Wutai monk to fight the foreigners and lent his support.

而聯軍絡繹登岸，索大沽砲台，裕祿懼，疏告急，請敕董福祥來援。 Allied troops landed in force and demanded the Taku forts; terrified, Yu Lu sent urgent memorials begging the throne to summon Dong Fuxiang.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 467Volume 467 Biographies 254: Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, Shou Shan Zu Sun : Rui Chang, Feng Xiang, Chong Yu · 2 passages

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北洋創立武衛軍，改所部三十營為前軍，與宋慶、董福祥、袁世凱並為統帥。 The Beiyang command created the Wuwei Army; his thirty battalions became the Front Army, and he served as one of its four commanders alongside Song Qing, Dong Fuxiang, and Yuan Shikai.

慶、福祥用舊法訓練，世凱軍仿日式，士成軍則半仿德式，是為武衛四軍。 Song and Dong trained by the old methods, Yuan's force followed the Japanese model, and Shicheng's troops were half trained on the German pattern—these were the four Wuwei armies.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 468Volume 468 Biographies 255: Chong Qi Son: Bao Chu Deng, Zhi Jun, Yan Mao Younger Brother: Yan Zhi, Se Pu Zheng E, Wang Yirong, Xi Yuan, Zong Shibaofeng, Zong Shishoufu Younger Brother: Shou Fandeng, Song Chengxiang, Wang Tieshan · 1 passage

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及拳亂起，乃上書榮祿，言董福祥軍宜託故令離畿甸，然後解散拳民，謂「董為禍根，拳其枝葉耳」。 When the Boxer uprising broke out, he wrote to Rong Lu urging that Dong Fuxiang's army be sent away from the capital on some pretext before disbanding the Boxers, declaring: 'Dong is the root of the calamity; the Boxers are only its branches and leaves.'

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 495Volume 495 Biographies 282: Loyal and Righteous 9 · 7 passages

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時喀什噶爾提督董福祥奉旨赴甘肅協剿，由狄道進兵。 At the time Kashgar Commander Dong Fuxiang was ordered to Gansu to assist in the suppression and advanced by way of Didao.

福祿率師至蓮花渡，與賊隔岸相持，為福祥軍犄角，卒解河州圍。 Fulu led his troops to Lianhua Ford and faced the rebels across the river, forming a pincer with Fuxiang's army and ultimately lifting the siege of Hezhou.

時韓文秀亦作亂，河湟提督李培榮、總兵牛師韓軍失利，陝西巡撫魏光燾與福祥會白塔寺，議進兵。 At the time Han Wenxiu also rebelled; Provincial Commander Li Peirong of the He-Huang region and Major General Niu Shihan suffered defeat; Shaanxi Governor Wei Guangtao met Fuxiang at Baita Temple to plan the advance.

福祿入謁，陳亂事顛末，及前後戰狀，福祥奇之，檄剿叛回冶主麻於米拉溝。 Fulu presented himself, recounted the course of the rebellion and the battles fought, and Fuxiang was impressed. He ordered him to suppress the rebel Yezhuma at Mila Gorge.

剿未盡，馬營土豪馬采哥應之，福祥部將石堯臣等告敗，福祿復分道往援，首先陷陣，斬採哥，聚而殲之。 Before the campaign was finished the local strongman Ma Caige of Macamp rose in support; Fuxiang's generals Shi Yaochan and others reported defeat. Fulu again divided his forces to reinforce them, was first to break the enemy line, beheaded Caige, and annihilated the rebel band.

拳匪倡亂，福祥奉旨入都，檄福祿統馬步七營、旗防山海關，尋移永平府，福祥入衛京師，檄隨行。 When the Boxers rose in rebellion, Fuxiang was ordered to the capital and directed Fulu to command seven battalions of horse and foot to guard Shanhaiguan. He was soon transferred to Yongping Prefecture, and when Fuxiang entered the capital to guard it he ordered Fulu to accompany him.

六月，福祥檄令攻使館，中彈歿於陣，猶子耀圖、兆圖亦死，同殉者百餘人。 In the sixth month Fuxiang ordered an assault on the legation quarter; Fulu was struck by a bullet and died in battle, his nephews Yaotu and Zhaotu also perished, and more than a hundred died with them.