Taiping \Tai"ping"\, or Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing great peace.] (Chinese Hist.) Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast, attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the
{Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by General Gordon about 1864. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Gordon was a Sapper who, after the Crimea, found himself in China in 1861 putting down the pseudo-Christian Taiping rebellion as commander of the foreign-officered 'Ever Victorious Army'.