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Zheng Yi was a pirate who fought as a privateer for the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty in the Tây Sơn wars and later Nguyễn Ánh (Gia Long), first emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty. [12] Under Tây Sơn patronage, he fought in his cousin Zheng Qi's fleet. [12] Zheng Yi hailed from a family of pirates whose roots traced back to the Ming dynasty ...
He was born Zheng Wenxian in 1765 in Xin'an County, Guangdong, Qing China. His family, including his father Zheng Lianchang and his younger brother Zheng San had been pirates for generations, he and other pirates were recruited as mercenaries by Tây Sơn dynasty up until 1801.
The Qing navy feared them. In 1795, Zheng Qi abducted a 12-year-old boy named He Song (何送) and raised him as his adopted son. A few years later, Zheng Qi gave him a captive female as his bride and seven hundred pieces of silver (liang) to set up store for the pirate trade. He would later bestow three ships under He Song's command.
Battle of Nam Quan (May 10, 1853) - battle between the Qing Dynasty and the British versus Chinese pirates, Sino-British victory; Battle of Muddy Flat (April 3-4, 1854) - battle between the British, U.S.A., and Taiping Small Swords Society versus the Qing Dynasty and their Chinese Pirate allies, Anglo-American-Sino Victory
Afterwards, he was capitulated to the Qing dynasty government and became a captain in the Qing's Guangdong navy, receiving the rank of navy colonel. He was given the command of a total of 30 ships, allowed to retain 30 private fleets, and an appointment in Penghu. He would spend the rest of his life helping the government to fight other pirates ...
Furthermore, Shih’s fleet defeated the Qing dynasty’s navy — a considerable embarrassment for the emperor. ... Blackbeard is likely the most famous real pirate of all time, based on ...
Zheng Yi (pirate) Zheng Zhilong This page was last edited on 24 July 2021, at 00:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
According to Antony, "The decimation of several major Fujian and Zhejiang gangs, as well as the demise of the Tâyson pirates, between 1800 and 1802, gave Cai Qian a chance to gain dominance in the region. He quickly moved to absorb the scattered remnants of the Phoenix Tail, Bamboo Yellow, and Water Bay gangs, whose leaders had been killed in ...