this is new to me! On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < [email protected]> wrote:

deja entendu parler de cette guerre ci ? , avec sa capitale a Nanjing, et comprenant une grande partie du sud de la chine :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom

A heterodox <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy> Christian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity> convert, Hong led an army that controlled much of southern China, with about 30 million people. The rebel Kingdom announced social reforms and the replacement of Confucianism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism>, Buddhism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism> and Chinese folk religion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion> by a form of Christianity, holding that Hong Xiuquan was the younger brother of Jesus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus>. The Taiping areas were besieged by Qing forces throughout most of the rebellion. The Qing government defeated the rebellion with the eventual aid of French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_French_Empire> and British <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire> forces.* The conflict was one of the deadliest wars in history, with about 25 million killed, mainly civilians.*

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