Amur campaign

The Amur campaign was a war waged by the Qing dynasty against peoples living along the Amur River region from 1639-1643. It ended in the subjugation and integration of the natives into the Eight Banners.

Amur campaign
Part of the Qing conquest of the Ming
Date 1639-1643 Location Northeast Asia Result Qing dynasty victory
Belligerents
Evenks Daurs	Qing dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Bombogor Bardači	Simshika
Strength
500

Background

The recently created Qing dynasty under Hong Taiji expanded rapidly during the 1630s in all directions. One of the areas which came under attack by Qing expansionism was the northeast Amur river region where people such as the Evenks, Nanai, Daur, and Solon lived.[1]

Campaign

In 1639, Qing forces attacked the Solon and Daur people. A force of 500 under the Evenk chieftain Bombogor tried to resist, but the Qing defeated them and captured the fortresses of Duochen, Asajin, Yakesa, and Duojin in the following year.[1]

In 1643 the Amur region natives submitted to the Qing.[2]

Aftermath

Those who surrendered were incorporated into the Eight Banners. Although victorious, the Qing later attacked and resettled the Daurs in 1654 and 1656 to prevent them from coming under the control of the Russians.[3][4]

References

1. Narangoa 2014, p. 37.
2. Narangoa 2014, p. 41.
3. Narangoa 2014, p. 47.
4. Crossley, Pamela Kyle (2002). A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (illustrated, reprint ed.). University of California Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0520234246.

Bibliography

• Narangoa, Li (2014), Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 9780231160704
• Swope, Kenneth (2014), The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, Routledge
• Wakeman, Frederic (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, 1, University of California Press