Tây Sơn wars
| Tây Sơn wars Vietnamese Civil war of 1771–1802 | |||||||
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Vietnam in 1792. Nguyễn lords' territories is the green area; while The yellow and the dark areas were under control of Tây Sơn leaders Nguyễn Nhạc and Nguyễn Huệ. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Tây Sơn Cham people Chinese Vietnamese (1771–1777) Pirates of the South China Coast |
Nguyễn lords Trịnh lords (1775, 1785–1786) Qing dynasty (1788–1789) Royal Vietnamese army under Lê Chiêu Thống | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Nguyễn Nhạc Nguyễn Huệ Nguyễn Lữ Nguyễn Quang Toản Ngô Văn Sở Lý Tài (1771–1775) Po Tisuntiraidapuran Chen Tianbao Zheng Yi † |
Nguyễn Phúc Thuần Trịnh Sâm Sun Shiyi Cen Yidong † Lê Chiêu Thống | ||||||
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Tây Sơn: 25,000 (1774) South China sea pirates: 50,000 (1802) |
Nguyễn lord: 80,000 (1771) Trịnh lords: More than 150,000 (1786) China: 60,000–200,000 (1788–1789) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| More than 1-2 million | |||||||
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The Tây Sơn wars or Tây Sơn rebellion, often known as the Vietnamese civil war of 1771–1802, were a series of military conflicts that followed the Vietnamese peasant uprising at Tây Sơn (in Central Vietnam) that was led by three brothers Nguyễn Nhạc, Nguyễn Huệ, and Nguyễn Lữ. These revolutionary forces grew and later overthrew the ruling Vietnamese elite families and the ruling dynasty. The Tây Sơn leaders installed themselves as rulers of Vietnam that held power until they were overthrown by Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, a descendant of the Nguyễn lord who was previously overthrown by the Tây Sơn. The war ended in 1802 when Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (now called Emperor Gia Long) defeated the Tây Sơn and reunited Đại Việt, then renamed the country to Vietnam.