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31-689: Somewhere near its mouth was the Russian fort of Kumarsk at the time of the Russian–Manchu border conflicts . At the time it was also called "Kamora River" or "Houmar River". This Heilongjiang location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Russian%E2%80%93Manchu border conflicts Qing victory [REDACTED] Tsardom of Russia The Sino-Russian border conflicts (1652–1689) were

62-518: A monsoon -influenced humid continental climate ( Köppen Dwb ) with very warm, humid summers and severely cold, extremely dry winters. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −24.7 °C (−12.5 °F) in January to 21.3 °C (70.3 °F) in July, and although temperatures consistently average above 10 °C (50 °F) from May to September, the annual mean, at −0.3 °C (31.5 °F),

93-554: A rare commodity in this part of Siberia. From June 1686, the fort was again besieged. Either the siege was raised in December when the armies learned that the two empires were engaged in peace negotiations, or the fort was captured after an 18-month siege and Tolbuzin was killed. At that time less than 100 defenders were left alive. In 1689, by the Treaty of Nerchinsk , the Russians abandoned

124-822: A series of intermittent skirmishes between the Qing dynasty of China, with assistance from the Joseon dynasty of Korea, and the Tsardom of Russia by the Cossacks in which the latter tried and failed to gain the land north of the Amur River with disputes over the Amur region. The hostilities culminated in the Qing siege of the Cossack fort of Albazin in 1686 and resulted in the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689 which gave

155-472: A voyvoda was appointed by Moscow. After extensive reconnaissance, the Qing made their first attempt to conquer Albazin in 1685. At the time Albazin was a wooden fort with only 300 muskets, 3 cannons, and low stocks of gunpowder; regardless, the Chinese concluded that it could not be taken from its tiny garrison unless "red barbarian cannons" ( Hongyipao ) were used. Three thousand Qing soldiers initially assailed

186-693: Is a county in the far north of the Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. The county seat is located on the right (southwestern) bank of the Amur River , a few kilometers upstream from the fall of the Huma River (formerly also known as Houmar) into the Amur. It is under the administration of the Daxing'anling Prefecture . The opposite side of the Amur River is in Amurskaya Oblast', Russia , where there

217-465: Is a village with the same name in Russified form, Kumara ( Russian : Кумара ) Kumarsk , the predecessor of the present-day Huma, was a fortified Russian town in the Amur River region, founded in 1652 by Yerofey Khabarov and his companions, during his retreat from Achansk, corresponding to the present-day Khabarovsk , where he was besieged by Manchu and Daur allied forces. On 13 March 1655,

248-507: The Kangxi Emperor to reinforce Albazin against the Russians. Kangxi was impressed by a demonstration of their techniques and ordered 500 of them to defend Albazin, under Lin Xingzhu ( Chinese : 林兴珠 ) and He You ( Chinese : 何佑 ), former Koxinga followers, and these rattan shield troops did not suffer a single casualty when they defeated and cut down Russian forces traveling by rafts on

279-757: The "Lands along the Amur"). In 1860, with the Convention of Beijing , Russia annexed the Primorye (i.e. the "Maritime Region") down to Vladivostok , an area that had not been in contention in the 17th century. Those treaties allowed the Amur Annexation . Works cited 1. Page 133 -152 China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia By Peter C. Perdue Published by Harvard University Press, 2005 Huma County Huma County ( simplified Chinese : 呼玛县 ; traditional Chinese : 呼瑪縣 ; pinyin : Hūmǎ xiàn ; Manchu : Hūmar Siyan; Russian : Кумары )

310-609: The Chinese had wiped out the Russians below Nerchinsk and the deserted land became a haven for outlaws and renegade Cossacks. In 1660 a large band of Russians was destroyed. They had some difficulty pursuing the Cossacks since their own policy had removed most of the local food. In the 1670s the Chinese attempted to drive the Russians away from the Okhotsk coast, reaching as far north as the Maya River . In 1665 Nikifor Chernigovsky murdered

341-480: The Chinese starved and froze outside the walls and were sometimes driven to cannibalism . By November, 600 Russian men and more than 1,500 Qing soldiers had died. In October 1686, Russian envoys arrived in Beijing from Moscow requesting peace. In December, a messenger from the Qing emperor arrived at the siege lines announcing a pause to the siege, and that his men, as a show of good faith, were to offer food and medicine to

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372-516: The Komar fortress, defended by the ataman Onufriy Stepanov and his 500 Cossacks , was besieged by a Qing army led by Ming'andali ( 明安達理 ) consisting of 10,000 men. The outnumbered defenders repulsed several assaults. The defeated Manchu lift the siege the following month (on 3 April 1655). The town was ceded to Qing Empire after the treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. Huma County is divided into 2 towns, 5 townships and 1 ethnic township. Huma County has

403-416: The Qing sent another force of 3,000 troops (chiefly cavalry and including 30-40 "newly cast" cannons), supported by 150 supply boats manned by 3,000 to 6,000 more men, to retake the fort from the garrison of 736 Russian soldiers and militia (who had 11 cannons). The Russians rejected a Qing demand for surrender, and another battle ensued on July 18. Over the next few weeks, the Qing made various attempts to take

434-501: The big-capped Tartars!' Since our marines were in the water, they could not use their firearms. Our sailors wore rattan shields to protect their heads so that enemy bullets and arrows could not pierce them. Our marines used long swords to cut the enemy's ankles. The Russians fell into the river, most of them either killed or wounded. The rest fled and escaped. Lin Hsing-chu had not lost a single marine when he returned to take part in besieging

465-470: The city." written by Yang Hai-Chai who was related to Marquis Lin, a participant in the war Most of the Russians withdrew to Nerchinsk, but a few joined the Qing, becoming the Albazin Cossacks at Peking. The Chinese withdrew from the area, but the Russians, hearing of this, returned with 800 men under Aleksei Tolbuzin and reoccupied the fort. Their original purpose was merely to harvest the local grain,

496-680: The conquest of the Khanate of Sibir in 1582. By 1643 they reached the Pacific at Okhotsk . East of the Yenisei River there was little land fit for agriculture, except Dauria , the land between the Stanovoy Range and the Amur River which was nominally subject to the Qing dynasty. In 1643, Russian adventurers spilled over the Stanovoy Range, but by 1689 they were driven back by the Qing. The land

527-513: The fort out by blocking Russian access to the nearby river. Eventually, the Qing investment in Albazin became so large that the fortifications of the siege camps dwarfed those of Albazin itself. Moscow sent elite musketeers to relieve the fort but the Qing controlled all approaches and no sled or sleigh could slip in. Both armies suffered from disease and starvation: Russian combatants and civilians alike died en masse from scurvy, typhus, and cholera, while

558-643: The fort, but were always driven back with heavy losses, while Russian combat losses were negligible. The Russians even began sallying out for counterattacks to destroy Qing siege engines, one sally killing 150 Chinese troops for the loss of only 21 Russians. The Qing were befuddled by the design of the fort which, like contemporary European artillery forts, often left the Chinese soldiers caught in crossfires when they attempted to place their siege lines and artillery according to traditional tactics. The Qing general, Langtan, abandoned assaults in August and instead decided to starve

589-430: The fort. A detachment made a feint on the south of the fort, while other soldiers secretly moved Hongyipao to the north of the fort and to its sides, to carry out a pincer attack. In total, the Qing force included 100-150 light artillery, 40-50 large siege guns, and 100 musketeers, with the rest of the men using traditional weapons. On the first day, 100 Russians were killed or wounded by the massive artillery barrage. After

620-534: The land to China. The southeast corner of Siberia south of the Stanovoy Range was twice contested between Russia and China. Hydrologically, the Stanovoy Range separates the rivers that flow north into the Arctic from those that flow south into the Amur River . Ecologically, the area is the southeastern edge of the Siberian boreal forest with some areas good for agriculture. Socially and politically, from about 600 AD, it

651-480: The natives and defeating the local Qing troops. The Qing responded with two policies. First they ordered the local population to withdraw, thereby ending the grain production that had attracted the Russians in the first place. Second they appointed the experienced general Sarhuda (who himself was from the Nierbo village from the mouth of Sungari) as the garrison commander at Ninguta . In 1657 he built more than 40 ships at

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682-412: The remaining Russians, of which there were only 24. Albazin was eventually ceded to the Qing in the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk, in exchange for trading privileges in Beijing and the right to keep the city of Nerchinsk. Former Ming dynasty loyalist Han Chinese troops who had served under Zheng Chenggong and who specialized at fighting with rattan shields and swords (Tengpaiying) 藤牌营 were recommended to

713-442: The river, only using the rattan shields and swords while fighting naked. see also Outer Manchuria "[the Russian reinforcements were coming down to the fort on the river] Thereupon he [Marquis Lin] ordered all our marines to take off their clothes and jump into the water. Each wore a rattan shield on his head and held a huge sword in his hand. Thus they swam forward. The Russians were so frightened that they all shouted: 'Behold,

744-455: The spring of 1653 reinforcements arrived under Dmitry Zinoviev. The two quarreled, Khabarov was arrested and escorted to Moscow for investigation. Cattle and horses in the hundreds were looted and 243 ethnic Daur Mongolic girls and women were raped by Russian Cossacks under Yerofey Khabarov when he invaded the Amur river basin in the 1650s. Onufriy Stepanov was left in charge with about 400-500 men. They had little difficulty plundering

775-467: The village of Ula (modern Jilin). . In 1658 a large Qing fleet under Sarhuda caught up with Stepanov and killed him and about 220 Cossacks. A few escaped and became freebooters. In the following operations significant Korean forces under King Hyojong were included into Manchu-led troops. The campaigns became known in Korean historiography as Naseon Jeongbeol (나선정벌, literally Russian campaign ). By 1658

806-556: The voyvoda of Ilimsk and fled to the Amur and reoccupied the fort at Albazin , which became the center of a petty kingdom which he named Jaxa . In 1670 it was unsuccessfully attacked. In 1672 Albazin received the Czar's pardon and was officially recognized. From 1673 to 1683 the Qing dynasty were tied up suppressing a rebellion in the south, the Revolt of the Three Feudatories . In 1682 or 1684

837-476: The whole Amur country including Albazin. The frontier was established as the Argun River and the Stanovoy Range . In 1727 the Treaty of Kyakhta confirmed and clarified this border and regulated Russo-Chinese trade. In 1858, almost two centuries after the fall of Albazin, by the Treaty of Aigun , Russia annexed the land between the Stanovoy Range and the Amur (commonly referred to in Russian as Priamurye , i.e.

868-402: The wooden walls were set ablaze, the Russians surrendered and acknowledged Qing suzerainty. After this, the Russian garrison was ordered to build more powerful walls. With the help of Prussian soldier Afanasii Ivanovich Beiton (who was second in command of the fort), the walls were eventually built up to a height of five and a half meters and a thickness of seven and a half meters. In July 1686,

899-505: Was fighting and the natives called for the assistance of the Qing. On 24 March 1652, Achansk was unsuccessfully attacked by a large Qing force consisting of 600 Manchu soldiers from Ninguta and about 1500 Daurs and Duchers led by the Manchu general known as Haise (海色), or Izenei (Изеней or Исиней). Haise was later executed for his poor performance. As soon as the ice broke up Khabarov withdrew upriver and built winter quarters at Kumarsk . In

930-567: Was populated by some 9,000 Daurs on the Zeya River , 14,000 Duchers downstream and several thousand Tungus and Nivkhs toward the river mouth. The first Russians to hear of Dauria were probably Ivan Moskvitin and Maxim Perfilev about 1640. In 1859/60 the area was annexed by Russia and quickly filled up with a Russian population. Next summer he sailed down the Amur and built a fort near modern Achan  [ ru ] (Wuzhala (乌扎拉)) probably near present-day Khabarovsk . Again there

961-536: Was the northern fringe of the Chinese-Manchu world . Various Chinese dynasties would claim sovereignty, build forts and collect tribute when they were strong enough. The Ming dynasty Nurgan Regional Military Commission built a fort on the Northern bank of the Amur at Aigun , and established an administrative seat at Telin, modern Tyr, Russia above Nikolaevsk-on-Amur . Russian expansion into Siberia began with

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