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Gang Hong-rip

Commander of the Joseon army sent at Ming request against the Later Jin in 1619, who surrendered to the Jurchens after the defeat at Sarhu

In 1619 he led some 10,000 Joseon troops with the Ming army against the Later Jin, but surrendered to the Jurchen after the Ming were routed at the Battle of Sarhu. Gwanghaegun is said to have told him to act according to circumstances. He returned with the Later Jin army in the First Manchu Invasion of 1627 and helped arrange the peace.

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    1619Battle of Sarhucommander

    In 1619 Nurhaci’s Later Jin defeated, one after another around Sarhu, the Ming armies advancing along four routes and Gang Hong-rip’s Korean force. The battle reversed the balance between Ming and Later Jin.

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    1619Gwanghaegun’s Neutral Diplomacycommander

    At Ming request Joseon sent an army under Gang Hong-rip against the Later Jin; when the Ming were routed at Sarhu, Gang surrendered, and Gwanghaegun kept Joseon neutral between Ming and Jurchens.

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  • Nurhaci (Taizu of Qing)1559 – 1626

    Jianzhou Jurchen chief who united the Jurchens and founded the Later Jin in 1616 (r. 1616–1626), created the Eight Banners and the Manchu script and defeated the Ming at Sarhu

  • Wanli Emperor (Shenzong of Ming)1563 – 1620

    Ming emperor (r. 1572–1620) who, after Zhang Juzheng’s death, long refused to hold court; the “three great campaigns” including the Korean war and the defeat at Sarhu drained the dynasty

  • Gwanghaegun1575 – 1641

    Fifteenth king of Joseon who began the Daedong law and balanced Ming and the Later Jin; deposed in 1623

Themes this person appears in

  • Factional Politics in Joseon1498 – 1863

    From the literati purges to in-law government — how Sarim factions moved from coexistence and checks to purges and one-faction rule, then through Tangpyeong to the dominance of a few clans

  • Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800

    The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning