Enlightenment · Central Asia · War
1719
Dzungar-Qing War Intensifies
March 1719
The Kangxi Emperor dispatched three armies into the steppe against the Dzungar Khanate, the last great nomadic empire of Central Asia. The campaign stalled in dust and distance, but the strategic aim was clear: Beijing would not tolerate a rival power on its western flank. The final destruction of the Dzungars lay forty years ahead.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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