Qing · Imperial clansman and general

Xianghou 祥厚

First attested AD 1848; died AD 1853

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Xianghou was an Imperial clansman and general.

PeriodQing
IdentityHistorical · Male

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Loyal and Brave 忠勇 Zhongyong

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  • AD 1853 咸豐三年
    killed in battle after taking dozens of wounds 身被數十創，死之 · At Nanjing banner garrison 江寧駐防城
    Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 398, passages 24-26

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 398Volume 398 Biographies 185: Zong Shixianghou, Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong A, En Zhang, Chen Shengyuan, Qi Suzao, Chen Kerang, Liu Tongying, Rui Chang, Jie Chun, Xi Ling A · 13 passages
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祥厚偕副都統霍隆武、提督福珠洪阿、布政使祁宿藻疏言：「督臣藉口江寧吃緊，趕回佈置，沿途險要，並不屯紮，上駛師船，一概撤回，專守水路之東西梁山。 Xianghou, Deputy Commander Huo Longwu, Regional Commander Fu Zhu Hong'a, and Provincial Commissioner Qi Suzao submitted a joint memorial: "The governor-general, pleading the crisis at Nanjing, hurried back to make dispositions; yet he left no garrisons at any of the strategic points along the way, recalled every war-junk that had been sent upriver, and concentrated his efforts only on holding the Eastern and Western Liang hills on the water route.
疏入，詔逮建瀛治罪，命祥厚兼署總督，與霍隆武、福珠洪阿、祁宿藻悉心防禦，以在籍前廣西巡撫鄒鳴鶴熟悉賊情，命同籌辦。 When the memorial reached the throne, an edict ordered Jianying arrested and punished. Xianghou was appointed acting governor-general and, with Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong'a, and Qi Suzao, charged to organize the defense. Zou Minghe, the former Guangxi governor now at home and familiar with the rebels, was ordered to assist in planning.
賊圍城，偕祥厚登陴固守，歷十餘晝夜，外城陷，同守內城，策馬督戰，受傷墮，力竭陣亡，贈都統，予騎都尉兼雲騎尉世職，諡果毅。 When the rebels besieged the city, he and Xianghou held the ramparts for more than ten days and nights. After the outer city fell they defended the inner quarter together. He rode out to direct the fighting, was wounded and thrown from his horse, and died when his strength gave out. He was posthumously made commander-in-chief, granted a hereditary cavalry command with an additional cloud-cavalry title, and honored as Resolute.