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commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Zhuge Liang

Battles of Zhuge Liang

Chinese statesman and military strategist (181–234)

Zhuge Liang is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between AD 208 and AD 234: 4 battles and 1 siege, all in present-day People's Republic of China. Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,014 km apart end to end, 254 km between engagements on average.

Battle of ChangbanSiege of ChencangBattle of JianweiBattle of Mount QiBattle of Wuzhang PlainsBattle of ChangbanSiege of ChencangBattle of JianweiBattle of Wuzhang PlainsXianNanyangMianyangTianshuiAnkangLuoyangGuangyuanTongchuanHanzhongLongxi200 km33.200N, 108.527E
5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

AD 208: 1 engagements1 in AD 208AD 228: 1 engagements1 in AD 228AD 229: 1 engagements1 in AD 229AD 231: 1 engagements1 in AD 231AD 234: 1 engagements1 in AD 234AD 208AD 234
5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Changban, AD 208Siege of Chencang, AD 228Battle of Jianwei, AD 229Battle of Mount Qi, AD 231Battle of Wuzhang Plains, AD 234AD 208AD 234
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
October AD 208Battle of ChangbanJingmen, People's Republic of ChinaCao Cao victory; Liu Bei evacuated to Xiakou
December AD 228Siege of ChencangChencang District, People's Republic of China512 km NWWei victory
AD 229Battle of JianweiLongnan, People's Republic of China208 km SWShu Han victory
March AD 231Battle of Mount QiChina43 km WSee aftermath
AD 234Battle of Wuzhang PlainsWuzhang Plains, People's Republic of China251 km NEInconclusive; Shu Han retreat

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.