The Taiping's northern expedition fights its way…

The Taiping's northern expedition fights its way toward Peking.

Hunan, together with other provinces on the lower Yangtze Basin, is desolated in the subsequent fighting, although the city of Ch'ang-sha withstands a Taiping siege in the mid-1850s.

It is a Hunanese, Zeng Guofan, who ultimately is responsible for crushing the rebellion.