Crossword-Solution: NANKING 7 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The Tai-ping rebellion, which had begun in the south some three years earlier (1850), had established its capital at Nanking, on the Yangtse River, and had sent its "long-haired" rebels north on an expedition of conquest, the ultimate aim of which was Peking.

Starting in the southwest with an army of ten thousand men they had eighty thousand when they arrived before the walls of Nanking.

That this is not the case is further indicated by the fact that since that time he has on two separate occasions attended the commencement exercises of the Nanking University, on one of which he addressed the students as follows: "This is the second time I have attended the commencement exercises of your school.

Rapidly rising to the highest military rank, he gradually found himself at the head of a huge army, and by 1368 was master of so many provinces that he proclaimed himself first emperor of the Great Ming dynasty, under the title of Hung (_Hoong_) Wu, and fixed his capital at Nanking.

They speak the dialect of Peking, now regarded as the official or "mandarin" language, just as the dialect of Nanking was, so long as that city remained the capital of the empire.